Humpback whales that blow up ‘bubbles’ rings’ on boats. Do they try to talk?

Humpback whales that blow up ‘bubbles’ rings’ on boats. Do they try to talk?

by Melissa Hobson edited to Sarah Lewin Frasier

Humpback whales are known for their many use of bubbles-from strong, aggressive explosives that testify their ability to settle The bubble-net “curtains” they produce To circle the victim of a scene that often draws tourists from around the world.

Today is a new study published in Marine Mammal Science Watch out for unique contents when Humpbacks (Megaptera Novaengliae) Create dramatic, donut-shaped vortex bubbles that looks like a rolling ring of water smoke.

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The researchers of the University of California, Davis, and their companions in other institutions – including Set Instituteknown to focus on Search for extraterrestrial intelligence .

“We just want to be like, ‘What’s going on?'” Says Fred SharpeA Biisologist of the whales of UC Davis. “For a team interested in helping astrobiologists with the same signs from deep space, it has fallen in our paradigm.”

Sharpe and his companions soon find many examples of social media and from other researchers. Study Co-Author Jodi FreedianiA wildlife thotographer also at UC Davis, still noticed a friend circle with a friend shown in a presentation about a presentation about Humpback Whales. With this event in his mind, he said, “I went, ‘Gee, have a ring bubble!'”

For the study, the team records 12 events across the North and South Pacific and North Paciastic Ocean where 11 individual Humpbacks are detected to blow up the bubbles. Researchers describe 39 rings in general. “It’s not much of the world’s whales but enough – and in many oceans,” Frediani said.

“It’s a real fun role,” said the abbreviation of the Syracuse university Susan E. Parksthat studies with the bubble-feeding humpbacks and excludes new study. “Read it like a detective story trying to get along with the information about something that is not widely studied and rarely.” The parks were not observed any bubble on his own – as long as he knew, he said, “I might have seen them before and I didn’t think so.”

Despite accumulating multiple examples of rings, Sharpe still does not know what to think about their purpose. “What I think is how it feels when we first talk to foreigners,” he said.

Researchers considered that behavior can be played. One whale blows a bubble ring and then swims through it or “do a spy hop,” as a spy spy vertically on top, right through the ring bubble. Or perhaps the behavior of animals can change people’s curiosity: in 12 recorded events, nine-involved whales approaching man’s observers before they blow up the ring.

“We need the full help of the human brain. It is near (the whales) a mouth, and the symbols to go out.” -Locked Sharpe University of California, Davis

Can whales seek to talk to us? Sharpe will not reign it as a possibility. He gives the presence of people as causing the bubble blow and that humpbacks will improve in practice. “It can be a species-atypical signal made for people,” he said, “whales that come to people … using their own parlanication.”

The parks think animals have a show for people, but he added that soon to say such a small size size. “They want more (observations) before they can speak with security,” he said. Because most observations are made of people, it can skew to data, he says, even if there are “two observations from the planes) when whales don’t.”

Now many researchers know these rings bubbles, the parks say, the reported views can be added. In larger data, the Sharpe and his partners hope to know what the intent of flowing donuts in the air – and when rings can contain information. “We need the full help of human brain to trust this trust,” Sharpe said. “It’s close (the whales’ blowhole is a mouth, and the symbols that go out bubbles, as opposed to sounds.”

Sharpe hopes footage from study helps people feel connected to the whales from animals such as animals such as human threats like human threats Man like human threats with a sick person with a ship’s illness he says he also wants to find a way to inform the whales they hear. “To him, trying to catch potential messages and find a way of answering puts the team” at the same place you can if you are trying to talk to foreigners – and you’re trying to talk to foreigners. “