Humpback whale swallows and then spits out kayaker off Chile coast

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-02-14/whale-swallows-and-spits-out-kayaker-in-chile/104935882

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#News #Whale #MobyDick #chile

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a #language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on.

The same pattern is universally found across human languages bit also occurs in #whale song.

This complex signaling system, like human language, is culturally learned by each individual from others.

#biology
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-whalesong-patterns-universal-law-human.html

#HumpbackWhale songs are structured like human language https://www.science.org/content/article/humpback-whale-songs-are-structured-human-language paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq7055

"this structure might exist because #whale songs, just like human language, are transmitted through social learning... The findings don’t suggest #whales have a language, where combinations of sounds have fixed meaning and join together in grammatical structures... [but] it’s a step toward understanding whether there’s any meaning in whale song"

Project Jonah works to deliver essential first aid to stranded or injured marine mammals.

No matter what time of day or how difficult the conditions, they’re ready to offer lifesaving support.

#ProjectJonah run a 24 hour hotline for people to call if they find a whale or dolphin in distress.

Aotearoa call: 0800 4 WHALE (0800 4 94253)

#NewZealand #Aotearoa #MarineMammals #Stranding #Whale #Dolphin #Donate

https://www.projectjonah.org.nz/donate/

Saving whales since 1974

#Whale Effigy 🐳
Chumash (California, West Coast), c.1200-1600
Steatite, shell inlay, 7.1 x 9.5 cm
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts 1950.51.Ab.9 https://www.mbam.qc.ca/en/works/2375/
#IndigenousArt #NativeAmericanArt