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This is Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.
One of the drawbacks of researching blue whales is that most of the time you can't see what your study subjects are doing, or how many there are—or even, where they are. Satellite tags have revealed some of their diving behavior and where they migrate. But tags will never give a complete picture of the population at large.
"Because it's really hard to fit a tag on a whale." Ana Širović, an oceanographer at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. "We have 121 tags that have been deployed on blue whales. And we're talking about 16 or so years of field work. So it's not realistic to think we can actually go out and just tag all the animals and figure out that way how many there are."
But Širović is using another method to track the underwater giants—eavesdropping on their songs and calls. (B type call) (That's sped up so you can hear it by the way—much of the sound they produce is outside of our hearing range.)

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Širović and her team analyzed more than a decade's worth of blue whale sound. And found that in general, males seemed to be more vocal than females (D type call) Especially at night... perhaps because they prefer feeding by day.
"In a way, it's kind of like they don't like to speak with their mouth full. When they're feeding, they're focusing on that, and when they start calling, that's what they're doing."
And though no one's actually seen blue whales having sex, Širović says this song (A call–B call) may have something to do with it: cause when the whales are getting more in the mood during the year, that song gets more common. She presented these findings at the recent 2018 Ocean Sciences Meeting in Portland, Oregon.
Širović's goal is bigger than simply understanding the way whales communicate. "Ultimately the idea is we'd be able to say, 'oh look, there's X number of calls in this area, and we know that means that that is Y number of animals.'" And thus use sound to better understand the lives of these most elusive of study subjects.
Thanks for listening for Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Christopher Intagliata.

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