Whale clearly trying to sound human!:

Originally posted by humy
The noise from the whale clearly sounds like a human singing.
Hasn't it occurred to anyone here that, if we take this evidence completely at face value, we could form the simple obvious conclusion that the whale made that noise because it just felt like singing and sang for the same aesthetic/emotional reasons why a human may sing to himself/others? Surely tha ...[text shortened]... liberately and specifically trying to sound human but rather it just fancied to sing so it did?

The only thing about that concept is, AFAIK, that was the only whale to try to sound like that. If there were sounds like that captured in the wild, it might hold water, so to speak🙂

Originally posted by sonhouse
The only thing about that concept is, AFAIK, that was the only whale to try to sound like that. If there were sounds like that captured in the wild, it might hold water, so to speak🙂

Perhaps this whale simply heard a catchy sing tune from some human it overheard and then got a 'required taste' for it?

Originally posted by humy
Perhaps this whale simply heard a catchy sing tune from some human it overheard and then got a 'required taste' for it?

Anything is possible at this point since the whale in question died 5 years ago. That is why I asked if it were seen in other whales. That whale had to go through contortions it normally would never have done since it does not have vocal chords and had to manipulate the sound basically by doing a nose razz, which is remarkable in itself, having never been seen before.

So was it one genius level whale or are all beluga's capable of this?

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It's a theory, at this point just as good or bad as all the rest till more research is done.

Originally posted by sonhouse
It's a theory, at this point just as good or bad as all the rest till more research is done.

We should get a high dollar government grant to go off and do studies on the conversational abilities of the whale. Inquiring minds want to know...