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Humpback whales are forming super-groups

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Re: Humpback whales are forming super-groups

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holy units batman > Bursting from their enormous lungs at over 300mph (483km/h), a humpback whale's blow can rise up to 7m (23ft) into the air. Pick a lane BBC. But this is great news. Also the fact that whales "transport huge amounts of nutrients across the globe" (linking to [1]) is fascinating. The role of whales in sucking up critters in one place and pooping them out elsewhere being a fundamental dynamic that dr…

I think the BBC policy is to provide every measurement in both types of unit.

Re: Humpback whales are forming super-groups

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post #11
post #3

holy units batman > Bursting from their enormous lungs at over 300mph (483km/h), a humpback whale's blow can rise up to 7m (23ft) into the air. Pick a lane BBC. But this is great news. Also the fact that whales "transport huge amounts of nutrients across the globe" (linking to [1]) is fascinating. The role of whales in sucking up critters in one place and pooping them out elsewhere being a fundamental dynamic that dr…

I think the BBC policy is to provide every measurement in both types of unit.

Ordering is inconsistent.

Re: Humpback whales are forming super-groups

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I hope we create whalegemma (similar to dolphingemma) so we can explain to them how to co-exist better with humans (e.g. avoid this area during their whale hunting season, travel to this area if you get sick or tangled in rope).

There is a group that is attempting to communicate with whales by training a transformer based model on whale sounds.

https://www.projectceti.org/

Re: Humpback whales are forming super-groups

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holy units batman > Bursting from their enormous lungs at over 300mph (483km/h), a humpback whale's blow can rise up to 7m (23ft) into the air. Pick a lane BBC. But this is great news. Also the fact that whales "transport huge amounts of nutrients across the globe" (linking to [1]) is fascinating. The role of whales in sucking up critters in one place and pooping them out elsewhere being a fundamental dynamic that dr…

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Re: Humpback whales are forming super-groups

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There must have been so much unseen behavior when there were millions more whales in the ocean. Here's hoping that we can see more

Given the current trajectory of whale populations, 'we' probably won't be seeing that. Maybe in many generations of humans.

Re: Humpback whales are forming super-groups

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There must have been so much unseen behavior when there were millions more whales in the ocean. Here's hoping that we can see more

Given the current trajectory of whale populations, 'we' probably won't be seeing that. Maybe in many generations of humans.

Well, the population growth probably isn't linear, so maybe?
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