One for the Marine Cryptobiologists.

[theweaselking]

A lone whale, with cries not matching any known species, swimming the Pacific for more than a decade crying out to find more of its own kind and never getting a response.

Comments

[lorelei76.livejournal.com]

Oh man, that makes me so sad :-( Happy fucking holidays everyone.

[marlo.livejournal.com]

That makes me sad too. :(

[corkdorkdan.livejournal.com]

Do we know if this is still going on? The articles are all 4 years old.

[bitterfun.livejournal.com]

Yeah, these articles need more info. Sure it sounds sad but the 'sadness' is running off of assumptions.

Assumptions:
it is a loney whale
it is the only of its kind
it is from a single source
communication only happens on that frequency

You take out these assumnptions and its a whale sound from odd places that might correspond with multiple migratory patterns.

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

It's also on a frequency not used by any of the migratory whales, and not at times when the other migratory species are in the area,- from what I'm reading here.

Still,- wish there was more up-to-date info.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

Sorry, couldn't find anything more up-to-date last night. Have asked some crypo researchers to look into it, however. So there may be an update in the near future.

[ladyfox7oaks.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Thank you! :)

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

I was intrigued by the suggestion that it might be deaf.

[camelai.livejournal.com]

That *is* an interesting suggestion. My first thought was that it might be a hybrid of other whale species.

[shadenv.livejournal.com]

I'm kinda with Ursula on the deaf explaination. I used to see some really *awkard* vocalizations from cats who had been deaf from birth when I was volunteering at the shelter -- I mean the purring thing is sorta automatic, but their other vocalizations were either pitched differently than "hearing" cats or the way they'd form sounds didn't sound like a typical meow. One vocalized like a Siamese trying to imitate a piqued screacher monkey, and the other chirped.

[unknownpoltroon.livejournal.com]

That is the second saddest thing i have read. The first is that turtle from darwins expedioon thats the last of his kind on earth.

Saddest picture is that girl trapped by the earthquake who later died.

[ambug666.livejournal.com]

It's just waiting for the HMS Bounty to arrive with George and Gracie.