{"id":130015,"date":"2024-11-25T19:56:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T12:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=130015"},"modified":"2024-11-25T19:56:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T12:56:09","slug":"a-mysterious-noise-in-the-ocean-sounds-like-leviathans-talking-sciencealert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=130015","title":{"rendered":"A Mysterious Noise in The Ocean Sounds Like Leviathans Talking : ScienceAlert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In the waters around Antarctica, decades ago, humans heard a strange sound: a repeating noise that sounded like the quacking of a duck, if the duck was a giant <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kraken\">kraken<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the years following the first report of the so-called <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bio-duck\">Bio-Duck<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.acoustics.asn.au\/conference_proceedings\/AAS2004\/ACOUSTIC\/PDF\/AUTHOR\/AC040012.PDF\">in 1960<\/a>, scientists struggled to explain it. We still don&#8217;t have a complete answer, but new work analyzing Bio-Duck sounds suggests that whatever is making it is having a conversation.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We discovered that there were usually several different speakers at different places in the ocean, and all of them making these sounds,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/acoustics.org\/the-unsolved-mystery-sounds-of-the-southern-ocean-asa187\/\">says ocean scientist Ross Chapman<\/a> of the University of Victoria in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The most amazing thing was that when one speaker was talking, the others were quiet, as though they were listening. Then the first speaker would stop talking and listen to responses from others.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Balaenoptera bonaerensis &quot;bio duck&quot;\" width=\"1170\" height=\"878\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qblFlycZRVs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> frameborder=&#8221;0\u2033 allow=&#8221;accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share&#8221; referrerpolicy=&#8221;strict-origin-when-cross-origin&#8221; allowfullscreen&gt;<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Chapman <a href=\"https:\/\/eppro01.ativ.me\/web\/page.php?page=IntHtml&amp;project=ASAFALL24&amp;id=3770234\">presented his team&#8217;s work<\/a> at the 187th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>The oceans are very large, very deep, and very difficult for humans to explore. It&#8217;s often said we know more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usgs.gov\/news\/science-snippet\/why-we-have-better-maps-mars-seafloor-and-what-usgs-doing-change\">about Mars than we do about the seafloor<\/a>. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So it&#8217;s not surprising that there are things lurking down there that we <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/ghostly-creature-deep-in-the-ocean-is-like-nothing-weve-seen-before\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">haven&#8217;t seen<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and animal behaviors we can&#8217;t identify.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>The Bio-Duck was first recorded in Antarctic waters, and later off the western coast of Australia.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>An answer <a href=\"https:\/\/royalsocietypublishing.org\/doi\/10.1098\/rsbl.2014.0175\">finally arrived in 2014<\/a>: using tags that recorded their behavior, scientists were able to link the sound to Antarctic minke whales (<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antarctic_minke_whale\"><i>Balaenoptera bonaerensis<\/i><\/a>). The whales made sounds that were similar to recordings of the Bio-Duck sound.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>Case closed? Not quite, Chapman says. Similar sounds recorded in other oceans around Australia and New Zealand have not been linked to sightings of an animal, meaning it could be minke, or there <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">could very well<\/span> be another cetacean that makes Bio-Duck-like calls.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>Chapman has been studying the soundscape of the southern ocean since the 1980s, when recordings revealed that the Bio-Duck or its higher-frequency cousin, the Bio-Goose, could be heard all around Australia and New Zealand. He and his colleagues determined that the sound had to be coming from an animal.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_144476\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-144476\" style=\"width: 642px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/2024\/11\/minke.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"642\" height=\"482\" class=\"size-full wp-image-144476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/2024\/11\/minke.jpg 642w, https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/2024\/11\/minke-553x415.jpg 553w, https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/images\/2024\/11\/minke-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-144476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An Antarctic minke whale. (Adam Cropp\/Moment\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;The sound was so repeatable, we couldn&#8217;t believe at first that it was biological,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/acoustics.org\/the-unsolved-mystery-sounds-of-the-southern-ocean-asa187\/\">he explains<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to understand that this type of study of ocean noise was in its infancy in those days. As it turned out, we learned something new about sound in the ocean every day as we looked further into the data \u2013 it was really an exciting time for us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>Even if the sound is always made by Antarctic minke whales, there&#8217;s still a mystery there. We don&#8217;t know the purpose of the calls. But Chapman is relatively certain that the nature of the recordings he and his team have analyzed is a back-and-forth, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-contact-whales-in-world-first-communication-experiment\">like a conversation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>And the purpose of that conversation is also a mystery.<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s always been an unanswered issue in my mind,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/acoustics.org\/the-unsolved-mystery-sounds-of-the-southern-ocean-asa187\/\">Chapman says<\/a>. &#8220;Maybe they were talking about dinner, maybe it was parents talking to children, or maybe they were simply commenting on that crazy ship that kept going back and forth towing that long string behind it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- START single\/mrec --><br \/>\n<!-- END single\/mrec --><\/p>\n<p>Maybe further research will reveal it.<\/p>\n<p>The findings were presented at the <a href=\"https:\/\/eppro01.ativ.me\/web\/page.php?page=IntHtml&amp;project=ASAFALL24&amp;id=3770234\">187th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/a-mysterious-noise-in-the-ocean-sounds-like-leviathans-talking\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the waters around Antarctica, decades ago, humans heard a strange sound: a repeating noise that sounded like the quacking of a duck, if the duck was a giant kraken. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=130015\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8628],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}