What Is the Sound of a Whale?

The impasonic wave is below 20 hurts, which is lower than our human ears can hear. Because they are so low pitched, and because they are moving in water, travel over immense distances. Back in the day when the ocean was a quieter place, with fewer ships a filling it with noise, the song of a blue whale would have been able to traverse across the length of an ocean. And i think that then raises some really fascinating questions, like if you see a whale swimming on its fone in the middle of the ocean, is that whale really on its own? Like if it is in acoustic contact with other whales er that are a long way away and that we can't see

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