TALKING TO WHALES
COVER – Whales talk?
REFLECT
What do you know about whales?
- How many types of whales are there?
- What roles do whales play in the ecosystem?
- What are some challenges to the survival of whales?
- What else do you want to know about whales?
- Conduct an Internet search to find answers to these questions.
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In the video below, a family of sperm whales welcomes a new calf, which will take about 3 years to learn its family’s “coda”.
- What is a “coda”?
- What might whales be communicating with one another?
- What else do you want to know about whale communication?
- Conduct an Internet search to answer these questions.
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Over 4 decades ago, when NASA’s Voyager was launched into space, one of the recordings it carried was a whale song.
- Why would NASA send a whale song into space?
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If you were a marine biologist …
- Research the methods marine biologists use to better understand whale communication.
- If you were a marine biologist, how would you improve the methods used to understand whale communication.
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If you could talk to a whale …
- If you could talk to a whale, what would be the first 2 question you would ask?
- What questions might the whale ask you?