HON 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Humpback Whale, Marine Mammal, Father Figure

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12 Oct 2016
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Reminds me of the typical" ocean advocate--lively voice, lots of hand motions when speaking. First activist movement was to decrease funding for fossil fuels. Currently working on employers of fossil fuel fields to take notice. Interested in whale research since undergrad shifting over to climate change. Former vice chancellor @ uhwo (uh west o"ahu) Worked with disney filming crew to film research. Aerial view of humpback whale-bottlenose dolphin interaction. Responses of wintering humpback whales (megaptera novaeangliae) to playback of recordings of winter and summer vocalizations and of synthetic sound . Humpback whales migrate btwn hawaii and alaska. Whales were charging," pushing itself so hard against the surface of the water that waves were created. Filmed w/ cameras; whales almost broke them! Nearly 22% of all pods within 3 km of playback vessel approached the. Males more likely to approach than females: dinner bell hypothesis. Vocalization carries gender info; recorded sound was made by female.

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