A Whale of a Tail
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- 19 hours ago
- 1 min read
Hosts: Doug Sharp and Rich Geer
Guest: Dr. Jerry Bergman
A news release by the American Association for the Advancement of Science tells a research project by Julia Zeh, Ph.D. studying a link between the structure of a humpback whale's song and the whale's movement through the water. Despite decades of research into what these songs sound like, scientists have had far less insight into what the whales are physically doing while they sing. Understanding that connection could reveal how singing affects a whale’s energy use, oxygen management and vulnerability to underwater noise and vessel strikes. The article suggests that this study will offer a new window into the biology and evolution of one of the animal kingdom's most elaborate acoustic displays.
Dr. Jerry Bergman has written a book "Whale Evolution is a Whale of a Tail". He disputes whale evolution, analyzing each of the purported intermediate fossils and it's impossible evolutionary journey from a fictional dog-like mammal on land gradually losing its feet and limbs and developing flippers, a fluke, and fins. In 1967, Doug observed the ongoing study at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and the results of attempting to understand the whale's communication method hasn't progress much further despite 60 years of study.
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