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I'm trying to start a conversation is
the most basic way you can say it.
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I'm trying to put a speaker in the ocean
and talk to a whale and hope it talks back.
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If this work is successful,
it will be the first experiment
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where we have actively engaged
in a dialogue with a humpback
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whale.
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I'm trying to start a conversation is
the most basic way you can say it.
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People have been studying
humpbacks song for 40, 50 years and
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still no one really knows why they sing.
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Birds have song and other whales have song,
but humpback song is even more elaborate.
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They have rhythm,
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time's breathing,
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rhyming and repetition,
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hours of patterns within patterns with
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no clear beginning or end.
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I think humpback song is
complex communication on
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a scale that has no analog
that we know of except
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us.
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My stepfather was a classical pianist.
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When he sat down to teach
me the piano, he told me
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to play one note and to
close my eyes and listen
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until the sound disappeared.
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He wanted me to understand
the sound by experiencing it.
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So
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took 10 years to lay the
groundwork before we could even
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begin to build the playback
files to play to the whales.
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That's it. This is that's the
playback call. That was the
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actual call that we will be
playing. Or one of the calls.
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Yeah, we'll need to adjust it a little
bit. I mean, we could reduce the volume.
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Maybe so it's clipping.
Well, it's clipping from your
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point. Oh, yeah, the clippings
from your So these recordings
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haven't been filtered. They
haven't been adjusted at all.
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That's good.
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Something's not right. I
am trying to fool the whale. I
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should be transparent about
that. I'm trying to convince the
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humpback that there is another
whale in the water that is vocalizing.
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So playback experiments in
the past made a lot of terrible
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sounds by accident. This
is for half of the first, it's the
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real song.
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The last time they did
playbacks, they ended up sounding
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like a humpback whale
on helium. And this is the
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reconstructed one.
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And then they wonder why no
one responded. So you actually
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clear out. Yeah, you lose all
the noise. And here you have
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the waveform like blue is
the input and red is what we're
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listening. Red is what we're
hearing now. And you're in and
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you basically are just working
with signal. So you don't
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have any issues with the
spectrum. You don't have like all
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the type of sounds or breaking
the noise. All the clicks and
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everything, you know, will
be thrown away. That is a great
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idea. The only issue I see
is that most humpback calls
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aren't tonal. I mean, they're
amplitude modulated calls and
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they're short. So a lot
of them are these sort of
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calls that aren't harmonic. That's amazing.
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Then it's just, again, I think going to be
a clarity. I think we should try it. Yeah.
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If you were to listen to all
the whales around the world
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at the same time, most of
those sounds would be calls.
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Sometimes they occur in series that change
order. Sometimes they occur one by one.
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But they're short and we
understand very little about them.
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But of all of the humpback calls,
I think one is the most important.
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The whoop.
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This call is produced, we
think, by everyone. This is an
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animal that has the potential
to produce infinite numbers of
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calls.
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Why is this call unique? Why
is this call special? And the
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best way to start finding
that out is by playing it to a
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whale and seeing how
the whale reacts to it.
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This is the question
I've been preparing for.
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This is the one that I fought
for when I was 25 and I
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started this. And this was
the one that I rallied for when I
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started my PhD.
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And I have to make sure the
science is impeccable. This is
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the very beginning of how we
understand how humpback whales
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perceive the world and how
humpback whales perceive each
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other through sound.
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My mum loved the ocean and
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she always wanted to be an
oceanographer, but women weren't
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allowed out on boats. So she
became a geographer instead.
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She never lost her love of the ocean and
she definitely transmitted that onto me.
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Exactly. That's an important
thing. Noting the weird, noting
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the different is the best thing
you can do because that will
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jump out at you. If we
notice these individual level
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differences, make a note.
Scientists had always thought that
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songs were only used for
mating. I've got a nice pattern. So
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a violin, a bark, and I'm
pretty sure that's going to be a
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whoop. So these are like
three perfect examples.
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But as I listened to a decade
of recordings from the South
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Pacific, I saw the same
songs turning up in populations
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separated by hundreds of
miles. It's important that we're
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seeing the structure, right?
So we've got a big squeak and
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then a lower frequency unit,
then the big squeak and some
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lower frequency. And so
if you think about it, it's a
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structural thing. I realized song
had to be much more than just mating.
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Small changes are introduced
to the song. And then all of
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the singers learn those
changes and the song evolves. It
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steps forward. Songs are
then passed across distant
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populations. And as this
repeats, they become the shape of
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what thousands of whales
sound like collectively.
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All of this is a cultural
phenomenon. So from Australia,
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it first spreads to New Caledonia,
800 miles away. They all
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learn the song within a
couple of months, which is
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ridiculous that animals can
learn this very long, complex
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display so rapidly. The songs
go from West to East every
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time, connecting an ocean of
whales with culture. I'm trying
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to complete a map of where
song sharing is found in the
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South Pacific. To find its
edges. To find out where this
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humpback culture ends.
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That's enough, I think
that's enough. Stuff it in.
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Is he all
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right?
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Fail work is always a challenge because
you're away from people you care about.
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On occasion, I've managed to get
Matt to come to the field site with me.
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And we discovered he gets
seasick on boats, so that didn't
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work so well. I know, I know,
I know, I know, I know. Have
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you opened that yet? Step one,
I normally sit top of smoke lines.
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Oh, you all right? Yep.
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Thanks, buddy.
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I don't even know where to start.
Okay. Delegate done. Cut it? Delegate.
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Okay, can you get all the stuff off
the washing line that's dry? Yes, I can.
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You know, we have absolute
minimal communication coming up.
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That sucks and it's really
hard and I think it's much harder
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for you than me because I'm
surrounded constantly by people,
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by the team. Plus you've got
something to do, right? There's
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no rest really on field work.
When you're really interested
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in something and really
passionate about it, it's just the
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obvious thing you want to
do. I love being in the field. It
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makes me super happy and I
absolutely love it and I wouldn't
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want to stop doing that but
it is really hard to go away.
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It's just best to try and
not think about it, I guess.
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Okay.
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There we go.
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Four hydrophones. Check.
Remote. Check. Four dry bags with
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collars and GPS units. Check.
Tracker. Check. Small black
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dry bag with boat GPS unit.
Check. iPad. Check. Green towel
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is in the backpack. Goal Zero
battery with charging cores
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and the Goal Zero solar
panel are both in the backpack.
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Black Pelican. Check. I
checked it this morning. Camera,
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binos, an extra nine volt
camera battery and AA batteries
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all in there. Awesome. Big
yellow dry bag. Rain jackets.
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Lunch snacks. Check, check,
check. Okay. Playback speaker.
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Check. Four life jackets. Yep.
Two radios. Check. Personal
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dry bags and water bottles. Water.
I've got my water bottles full. Sunscreen.
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We'll do our
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first survey down south and then
we'll work our way north. Good.
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When you're in a place of
such beauty, it's easy to forget.
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The whales could capsize us
and the water is cold enough
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that we would die.
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There's somebody up there for sure.
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In past seasons, I've gone
weeks without seeing any whales.
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This year, we have only a
month to survey at least 30.
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Okay hydrophones, it is 1028
August 11th. This is Dr. Leanna
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Matthews here with Dr. Michelle
Fournay. I'm going to clap
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three times.
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Each playback takes one hour. Below,
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we'll acoustically track one whale with
hydrophones while our speaker plays whoops.
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Starting playback.
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And above, we'll note everything
we see one whale do. This
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is called a focal hollow. By
linking behaviors we see at the
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surface with recordings
below the water, I'll have a
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complete picture of how
the whale is responding to our
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playbacks. We'll start at
first surface. Yeah. Yeah.
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I feel like
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she's gonna pop up right
next to us. Yeah. I feel like
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she's
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gonna pop up right next to us.
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Start survey. First surface,
southwest 76.2. Below,
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never mind, scratch that, not our
whale. That's not our whale. No.
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Below, west 50.1.
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Below, northwest.
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Dive, 36.3.
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It is our whale. Yeah, that's
our whale. Okay. A little
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white on the dorsal. Right?
Yeah. Yeah, the fluke just made
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me feel better because that
other whale was also a black
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fluke whale. I know, I noticed
that and I was like, oh my
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god. No, this is our whale.
And that was the right fluke?
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That was the right fluke.
Yeah, black fluke, leucons,
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speckles, barnacles on the tops.
Yep. Okay, that's the end of our survey.
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Contact. Contact. Contact.
Contact. Contact. Contact.
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Does anybody mind if I take
the cheddar one? Go for it.
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Are you guys disappointed
that I'm not taking us down there?
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No. It's intentional. There are
too many whales down there.
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I don't think we should go down
there. I think I get really confused here.
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It's not our whale.
Correct. That's not our
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whale. These two are
not our whales. Correct.
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Oh, what about that splashing
whale? That's our whale.
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Surface, first surface, 185.2
200 I'm pretty sure it's our
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whale. I'm going to try
and get it in the binos.
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Blue, south, 178.5 400.
The closer one, yeah?
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That's not our whale. Delete
that whole last surfacing.
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This study has a high
probability of failure.
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The logistics are really complicated.
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When there are multiple whales,
it's really hard to track just one.
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It's the idea that I might
be able to contribute to this
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knowledge, that that might
be my little piece that I can
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help with the puzzle.
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Even in the hardest field
season or the crappiest day, it
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gets me out of bed every
morning. I'm a nerdy scientist.
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Trying to understand our
planet, trying to understand
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all the animals on our
planet before they disappear.
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So, you haven't had much
instruction with the hydrophone
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before? Not much, no. So,
general idea, this part can't get
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wet, that part has to go in
the water. These take ages
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to wake up on stamina mode.
Yeah, right. I can hear that
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through there.
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Yeah, that's definitely doing
well. So, the whole idea is
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you pop on a piece of tape
and then you want to wind it
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tight, but not too tight. You
don't want to strangulate
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the cord. Okay. And the idea
for this is to reduce the low
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-frequency rumble. Yeah, it
produces those low-frequency
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vibrations. So, yeah, this has
been passed down from my
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supervisor's supervisor to
him, to myself, and now I'm sort
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of introducing it to our lab.
It's the Australian technique,
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shall we say. That's perfect.
Now we just need the whales.
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Yeah, I'm very happy to see
you too. So glad we can come out
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with you. I only have a couple
of weeks and I need to get
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high-quality recordings from different
whales. So I know what's being sung.
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OK.
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What do you reckon? Maybe
try... For the song, this is
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better. And after we can
go... Yeah, that's the best idea.
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Ready to go in? Yeah, ready to go in.
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Perfect. All right, I'm
going to start listening now.
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I'm listening at level 95.
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Maybe at the very edge of
my hearing. Yeah. It's a game of
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acoustic hide-and-seek. Let's
wear all of the... The string?
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Yeah, all the cable out
because it's not sitting vertical
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and I'd rather get as much
depth as we can. Below the
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surface, a song can be heard
by other whales for dozens of
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miles. But my hydrophone
struggles to record clearly beyond
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a mile or two.
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I'm going to stop that now.
File 001. Feel it from this way.
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The whales sing outside the
reef but the deeper waters can
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get so big that if you're
not careful, it could sink the
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boat.
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The water is a window but it's also a wall.
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We do have sing-in going
on but it is forward to very
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far. It's a long way and
we can't go into that, so...
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Ten years in
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Alaska and I've never seen
so many whales. I think we're
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doing a disservice to the
playback if we don't do a scan.
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Like, we're focal following this
animal and doing a playback
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to this animal but that's not
the only animal that hears
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this playback. Which means
that what the animal does is
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going to change because you
and I having a dialogue alone
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versus you and I having a
dialogue with a group of people is
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going to change how much we
contribute and how much we pay
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attention. I think we're
having trouble letting go. Sure,
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we spent weeks, I spent
months, I spent years a long time
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designing these focal follows.
But when you get there and
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you do it and you're seeing
all of these other things it
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doesn't matter how much time
I spent designing it. So what
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is the most elegant way to be
certain about something we see
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in nature without exaggerating
it, without hoping for it?
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And I feel like in terms of
that question A scan is the
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simplest way to capture the response of a
playback. It's a strong pivot. Very strong.
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Hey Maggie, we're making
some changes to the protocol. It's
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going to be scans. Just scans?
Scans only. I thought I was
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only going to have one whale so it made a
lot of sense to look at what one whale did.
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Instead I have lots of whales
which was an unexpected surprise.
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So I need to know whether or
not the number of whoops that
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each whale is producing goes
up when I produce a whoop. And
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the best way to do this is
to start doing scans. I mark
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every whale that I can see all
around me. If on average how
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many whoops each whale is
making goes up when I produce a
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whoop call that's really strong
evidence that they're using
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whoops to make contact.
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Yes.
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Starting playback.
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OK.
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We're going to head that
way to give some space and
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then we'll cut back slow.
We're going to go slow.
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30 seconds out from playback.
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Group size 4131500
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Group size 21541000
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145 group size 2 Can you
slow down just a little? Barely.
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Range 200 Please repeat
that asthma. 142 Group size 2
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250 yards 185 Group size 1 Please repeat
that I'm sorry. 185 group size 1 250 yards
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200 yards group size
1256 I am at group size
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4 at 1000 What was
the asthma? I don't know.
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Alright let's stop and start
over. Really really fast I
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haven't had time to really
look at this. I know and it's
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let's delete all of those and start again.
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As hard as that was it was
easier. To try and focal follow
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what I edible and all of that.
Look at these guys. Look at
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that.
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Alright. Start survey.
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Alright. Group size 3159
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I kind of want to see us. 1132
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That sounds right. I think
that's us. It's quiet. But again
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like it fits right in. It fits
right in. Oh yeah it sounds
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very very realistic.
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That's not us. No it's not.
No we're over here. This is us.
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Okay. I think the whoop is a
kind of hello to them. Possibly
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hello I am. Which raises
the question if each whale has
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their own whoop could they
use it to identify each other?
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This is why I'm playing
this sound. Before you can
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have the conversation it
helps to introduce yourself.
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So what else do we find in
here? We wanted to see if they
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were whooping before we
started whooping. That's us. And
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that's us. We don't see a lot of
whooping before we started whooping.
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That's us. I'm calling back.
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Could just be a random
chance. Here they go again.
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Come here. Maggie. We need
to push. Oh god. Oh god. I think
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we hit the ground. It creaks.
I'm not helping. I'm not
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taking part in this. I'll not
be sued if something goes
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wrong. We hit the ground. I
think we hit the ground. Stand
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up here. Are you saying
we can't swing? If we go
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further that way there's
less ground to reach.
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Ready? Oh my god.
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I'm going to pee my pants.
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Be careful. Can we get your
feet up there? I bet if you hold
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the stick higher. You're going
to have to jump. Jump and
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straddle.
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I take things that I love about
being here and set them up
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in my home. Like what? Like
I don't have the internet. You
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don't have internet at your
house? I don't have internet at
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my house. It's really quiet at
my house. I'm far away from
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noise. So that when I step
outside it sounds a little bit.
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When I wake up in the morning
it feels kind of like waking
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up in a tent. Transitioning
out of being here is
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exponentially harder. It
takes days to recalibrate to
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reality and the real world.
That's the thing. I don't feel
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like that is reality. I feel
like this is reality. This is
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the real world. Yes, but this
is not the real world that we
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live in all the time. So we
have to reset to the day to day
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life that we had before
this. And it's hard.
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Music
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Music
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Music Some things we do are
not innate. Music Music They're
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learned. Music They tell us
who we're connected to. Music
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And where we belong.
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We worked today. We were a
good team today. We took good
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care of each other. We
laughed a lot. We laughed a lot
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today.
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Music You don't want me to cut your hair?
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We call these things culture.
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Music Music Music The oldest cultures are
not human. Music They're from the ocean.
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For generations researchers
thought they were solitary and
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we didn't see them together.
Music Music Music But they
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haven't been alone for eons.
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40 million years ago their
brains exploded with complexity.
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Music Before we walked
upright. Music Before we sparked
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fire. Music Consciousness
bloomed because they became social.
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Music Regions related to
self and community grew more
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elaborate than in any other
brain. Including us. The senses
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of sight and sound merged. Allow on
whales to see one another through sound.
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Whales evolved to build
relationships in the dark.
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Music Music Tail on
the left. One there, one
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there. Music Music Music
Okay, recording at 1350.
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Music
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Music Music Okay, we do have a singer.
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you can hear all the detail
in it. This is exactly what we
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want. This is it, this is the
one. We are going to hold the
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cable for an hour. This is our
gold. This is our one for the season.
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The song we recorded is
different from the one I've been
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tracking, a new song I've
never heard before. In 20 years of
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song recordings across the
South Pacific, this is the first
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time I've ever seen this
happen. But I don't think it's an
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anomaly.
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The song has a
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complex
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In a week, I lose Leanna and
Maggie to their day jobs. But
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I think we're finally starting
to get it. Since we've gone
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from tracking one whale to
dozens, the hardest part is
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gauging distance by eye.
So every morning, we practice.
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We're a little under. Yeah.
We're overestimating the
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distance. Ready? Yeah. I
would say 75. Closer than 100. 70.
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Okay. I'm feeling
better. I'm feeling better.
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It's hot today. I'm so
uncomfortable. You also look very
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like a French girl goes into
the field today. Really? In the
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solid black. Oh, well, so
that's it. You can't see my
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sweat stains in the black.
And I can put my hair in a hat.
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Functional fashion.
Functional fashion. Yeah.
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I haven't changed
shirts in like six days.
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There's so many whips. Just
there. There. There. There. There.
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Seriously?
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Leanna, we've got fuel coming
out of the back. Okay, let's go.
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Yeah.
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I don't know exactly where
we're leaking from, so I need to
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figure that out. But I know
that when I'm feeding it fuel,
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that my intake is
fine, but something's
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happening, I think. But
I'm working on it. Okay.
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Just know that probably for
the next several hours, I will
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not have any extra bandwidth,
and I will be in problem
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-solving mode until the
problem is solved. Got it.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Yeah, we're getting close to 20 minutes.
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Blow.
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Is that English name? No.
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He's not a singer. He's not
a singer. I know. I know. He's
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like right there. I know. I
call it needle in a haystack.
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Yeah, yeah. I'm just
going to, they're either
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going to be there
singing or they're gone.
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Okay.
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So he's singing 4 4 30
at the Marina. Tomorrow?
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Yes. Let's do it. Let's
do it. Let's see, won't we?
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I just assumed that we
didn't have any good song, but
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it was good that we were
out, and it's good practice.
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And this end is the business
end? Yeah, this is the
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hydrophone. So what we do
is when we cable tie it, we put
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the hydrophone up, and it's
tailed out. So there's a weight
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on the ground, a buoy? Yeah,
we're putting it down on the
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reef there, and so there's a
lot of fish around. Yeah, okay.
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He's got some really cool
croakers. Right. Like, you're
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going to hear a lot of that,
and they're snapping shrimp,
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but as long as you've got
a close singer, it just sort of
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like overrides everything else.
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I'm doing everything I can to capture
something different that's happening here.
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It is the 10th of September, and
we are currently just off the reef.
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We're placing hydrophones on the seafloor,
hoping a singer swims close enough.
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We call our communication language.
We think what whales do is different.
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Underwater, sounds can take
half an hour to bend around
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the horizon or fade in a matter
of seconds and feet. Sounds
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constantly arrive from
different places and times, and
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somehow humpbacks
decipher an acoustic world
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where the past and
present arrive all at once.
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It's like knowing how each of the
stars fit within time, with just your ears.
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How many whales have I
marked? Six total. Six total. Whales.
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Whales. I have a group size
of two, a group of three, and I
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have a single over there,
right? Yep. That happens a lot.
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Okay. Okay. Time for my
three-minute break. Yes. Breaching
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whale! Well, we're out of our
work. Oh, yeah, but we can
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watch it. It's snack time. Get
the snacks. Get the snacks.
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Here, pocket cheese. Oh,
perfect. Thank you. Then how far
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away do we go before we do
another survey? One hour or four
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miles. Excellent. How many
surveys do we try and do in a
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day? Four. Four. Four. How
hungry are we going to be when we
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get home? So, so hungry.
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There's a lot happening in
this vile. We're not surprised
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there was a lot of whales
around. There was a little half
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feeding call.
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That's called an arches,
and then a droplet.
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Whop. Feeding
call. Droplet. Droplet.
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Droplet, droplet, feeding
called droplet, droplet, droplet.
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How many of these did you
name? I named all of those.
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You know what we call that call?
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Uh, elephant. No, close. Think
of another animal that makes
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a sound. It might be dead.
Mammoth. Closer. Woolly mammoth.
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Know what's called the
brontosaurus? Ah, it may be dead.
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Most certainly is dead. You
tricked me. They do remind me of
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brontosauruses. Brontosauri. I
agree. That sounds like a brontosaurus.
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Woo.
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Woo.
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Woo. Woo. Woo. Woo.
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Woo. Woo.
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Three more days until I
get a new engine. Woo.
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We're trying to answer the
question, is the whoop a contact call?
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And we are running out of time.
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We're creating a record so
that we can at least demonstrate
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to the world and to the
generations ahead of us that
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something beautiful was here.
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To answer these questions, I
have to remove myself from society
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and live in a world that is
dominated with animals. I'm not
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going to be able to do that.
I'm going to have to do it. And
455
01:02:59,440 --> 01:03:05,960
it doesn't feel like a
sacrifice. It feels like a release.
456
01:03:25,700 --> 01:03:27,721
I'm going to have to do it. I
know I'm going to come home a
457
01:03:27,733 --> 01:03:29,800
different person and I don't
know if that person is going to
458
01:03:29,800 --> 01:03:33,300
fit the role that I had before.
459
01:03:36,960 --> 01:03:42,866
Like, I went to Antarctica for
a month and came home to a
460
01:03:42,878 --> 01:03:49,000
dog and a partner that I didn't
fit into anymore. And I had
461
01:03:49,000 --> 01:03:53,144
to leave them. And I'm
terrified that's going to happen
462
01:03:53,156 --> 01:03:57,460
again. You know? Yeah.
I'm terrified I'm not going to fit
463
01:03:57,460 --> 01:04:00,737
into that role that I had
when I left. You have to leave
464
01:04:00,749 --> 01:04:03,980
it, but not just leave it
physically, but also leave it
465
01:04:03,980 --> 01:04:07,940
mentally. You've come into
the field for seven seasons.
466
01:04:10,560 --> 01:04:16,768
Have you found a way to come
home? No. No. Instead, I do the
467
01:04:16,780 --> 01:04:23,000
opposite and I take the things
that are precious to me about
468
01:04:23,000 --> 01:04:29,166
home, like you, and bring
them here. Which seems to make
469
01:04:29,178 --> 01:04:35,140
more sense. Because this
is a much safer place to be a
470
01:04:35,140 --> 01:04:35,140
human.
471
01:04:50,140 --> 01:04:53,465
I've never seen so few
whales this late in the
472
01:04:53,477 --> 01:04:57,240
season. And we've only
captured one clear recording.
473
01:05:08,940 --> 01:05:11,320
OK. All right. Put the phone down.
474
01:05:15,160 --> 01:05:19,279
Everything nicely. I'm
going to do Jason because
475
01:05:19,291 --> 01:05:23,000
I'm going out there
for a month and a half.
476
01:05:35,160 --> 01:05:40,100
Can I have a time? I'm
listening now. OK, recording.
477
01:06:23,880 --> 01:06:29,023
So much water noise. So much
splash. I think we might have
478
01:06:29,035 --> 01:06:33,840
to call it at 25. OK. I
just, this is getting, this is
479
01:06:33,840 --> 01:06:34,420
getting challenging.
480
01:06:38,740 --> 01:06:42,700
I am just exhausted from everything.
481
01:06:46,840 --> 01:06:49,255
To talk about that
it's hard, that it's
482
01:06:49,267 --> 01:06:52,300
challenging, can sometimes
be a sign of weakness.
483
01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:04,720
Particularly being female in this field,
you don't want to show any weakness.
484
01:07:39,920 --> 01:07:43,840
This year I promised that I would
only go to field work for two weeks.
485
01:07:48,820 --> 01:07:49,700
I miss Matt.
486
01:07:52,580 --> 01:07:55,820
It feels like a lifetime ago we
were able to see each other's faces.
487
01:08:28,400 --> 01:08:29,800
Music
488
01:08:42,040 --> 01:08:46,860
Music It is
489
01:08:46,860 --> 01:08:50,510
Tuesday, August 27th.
This is Dr. Michelle Forney,
490
01:08:50,522 --> 01:08:54,040
here with almost but
not yet Dr. Natalie Mastic.
491
01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:01,760
Alright.
492
01:09:06,660 --> 01:09:12,032
Oh, there's a lot of us.
OK. That's my favorite
493
01:09:12,044 --> 01:09:18,100
problem. It's a good
problem. Look at all the people.
494
01:09:31,800 --> 01:09:41,280
Perfect. OK. Flu is secured on the anchor.
Flu is now in the water. In the water.
495
01:09:50,340 --> 01:09:57,617
Is the volume turned up all
the way on the iPad? Yes. It is.
496
01:09:57,629 --> 01:10:04,560
Play it again. Is it playing?
It's playing. Oh, we didn't
497
01:10:04,560 --> 01:10:07,880
put it in the water. Alright, stop it.
498
01:10:12,460 --> 01:10:15,878
Alright, are you ready?
I don't know, that was
499
01:10:15,890 --> 01:10:19,320
very stressful. Oh, yes,
you're ready. OK, go.
500
01:10:23,300 --> 01:10:32,749
One, two, three, four, five,
six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
501
01:10:32,761 --> 01:10:41,740
eleven. Ready? And begin.
We have a group of two, three
502
01:10:41,740 --> 01:10:49,058
singles, one group of four, two,
two. We're on survey number
503
01:10:49,070 --> 01:10:56,160
twenty-six. That's time.
Group size three, one forty-five,
504
01:10:56,220 --> 01:11:03,756
twenty-six, two, three,
four, five, six, eight, nine, ten.
505
01:11:03,768 --> 01:11:11,060
Group of one, one twenty-nine,
one six, two hundred, two
506
01:11:11,060 --> 01:11:11,420
five.
507
01:11:20,380 --> 01:11:24,394
I feel my age for the first
time, and I want to have a baby.
508
01:11:24,406 --> 01:11:28,300
What are you going to do with
your baby when you're in the
509
01:11:28,300 --> 01:11:32,976
field? You're going to bring
him out. It's a hard question.
510
01:11:32,988 --> 01:11:37,520
It depends on what kind of
field work I do. It depends on
511
01:11:37,520 --> 01:11:40,612
what kind of partner I have
when I do that field work. If I
512
01:11:40,624 --> 01:11:43,780
have a partner who can join
me in the field, yeah. If I have
513
01:11:43,780 --> 01:11:47,754
a support group of people,
like, I'm dead serious. We do a
514
01:11:47,766 --> 01:11:51,820
one-month field season, and
somebody picks blueberries with
515
01:11:51,820 --> 01:11:54,758
the kids and makes pancakes
and does the laundry and cooks
516
01:11:54,770 --> 01:11:57,820
the meals for the day and does
the dishes for breakfast. And
517
01:11:57,820 --> 01:12:00,483
then we come in from all of
our surveys, and then the next
518
01:12:00,495 --> 01:12:03,260
day, it's my turn. With the
kiddos, like, you just stick one
519
01:12:03,260 --> 01:12:06,138
here and you hold two
hands, and if they fall, they fall.
520
01:12:06,150 --> 01:12:09,040
You pick them back up again.
And then we just bump around
521
01:12:09,040 --> 01:12:13,562
again, and now it's your turn
to stay home. Yes, that sounds
522
01:12:13,574 --> 01:12:17,960
amazing. Yeah. Are you thinking
about how exhausted you're
523
01:12:17,960 --> 01:12:22,351
going to be? It's only one
month. One month of working for
524
01:12:22,363 --> 01:12:26,840
nine hours on the boat, coming
home, not getting any sleep.
525
01:12:27,860 --> 01:12:30,238
I guess there just aren't
that many good examples
526
01:12:30,250 --> 01:12:32,640
of that in our field. We
don't need any examples.
527
01:12:53,700 --> 01:12:58,200
OK. OK. OK.
528
01:13:00,880 --> 01:13:01,120
OK.
529
01:13:04,200 --> 01:13:11,118
He told me this way. Yeah?
He's singing. OK. After when he
530
01:13:11,130 --> 01:13:18,060
go, I stop singing. OK. Yeah.
Yeah, OK. OK, I think, yeah.
531
01:13:18,140 --> 01:13:21,373
That explains it, because
we heard pretty good
532
01:13:21,385 --> 01:13:24,560
songs. So if he's off
there, yeah. All right.
533
01:13:37,100 --> 01:13:37,920
Going in.
534
01:13:42,960 --> 01:13:46,920
I think we're going in the right
direction. I think he's louder.
535
01:13:52,840 --> 01:13:56,100
Yeah, we are definitely going
in the correct direction now.
536
01:14:17,720 --> 01:14:19,120
OK.
537
01:15:08,960 --> 01:15:10,360
OK.
538
01:15:28,420 --> 01:15:29,820
OK.
539
01:15:45,900 --> 01:15:49,657
This is the same song
we heard in Australia,
540
01:15:49,669 --> 01:15:53,020
the one we've been
tracking all season.
541
01:15:56,040 --> 01:16:00,700
Which means there are at
least two different songs here.
542
01:16:04,640 --> 01:16:12,880
A cultural crossroads. Whale. This
whale is singing the song from the west.
543
01:16:18,620 --> 01:16:21,480
But the other song has to
be from somewhere else.
544
01:16:28,460 --> 01:16:34,840
And the next closest population
is near Ecuador, 5000 miles east.
545
01:16:37,380 --> 01:16:41,977
What I thought was unprecedented
song sharing across the
546
01:16:41,989 --> 01:16:46,760
South Pacific could be just
one piece of a global cultural
547
01:16:46,760 --> 01:16:47,760
network.
548
01:16:53,220 --> 01:16:56,379
Thousands of brains
learning and sharing some
549
01:16:56,391 --> 01:16:59,700
of the most complex
acoustic patterns on earth.
550
01:17:07,510 --> 01:17:12,620
The result of evolution that's
millions of years older than ours.
551
01:17:18,560 --> 01:17:24,160
Studying whale culture might be more
about glimpsing something of ourselves.
552
01:17:29,380 --> 01:17:34,980
How we can connect differently
a million years from now.
553
01:18:05,660 --> 01:18:06,260
And that's what we're going to do.
554
01:18:35,200 --> 01:18:37,420
OK. Whale.
555
01:18:41,120 --> 01:18:41,820
Huh?
556
01:19:25,560 --> 01:19:31,201
OK. We're about to find out
if it worked on this one. Oh,
557
01:19:31,213 --> 01:19:37,060
it starts there. OK. So in
the first before period, there's
558
01:19:37,060 --> 01:19:41,938
one, two, three growls. Whoops.
In the second before period,
559
01:19:41,950 --> 01:19:46,760
there's one, two, three whoops.
In the during period, there
560
01:19:46,760 --> 01:19:53,503
are one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven,
561
01:19:53,515 --> 01:20:00,120
eight, nine, ten,
eleven, twelve, thirteen.
562
01:20:02,760 --> 01:20:03,880
There are thirteen.
563
01:20:10,100 --> 01:20:15,650
That's pretty cool. That's
pretty cool. Right? We're talking
564
01:20:15,662 --> 01:20:20,860
back to you. I keep thinking
it's not going to work. OK.
565
01:20:29,240 --> 01:20:42,780
It is so hard to
566
01:20:42,780 --> 01:20:47,147
interpret the language
of the natural world. To
567
01:20:47,159 --> 01:20:51,720
listen and understand
what it's saying to itself.
568
01:20:54,680 --> 01:20:58,403
That is of the same
proportion as pointing all of our
569
01:20:58,415 --> 01:21:02,220
satellites skyward and
listening for a sign from outer
570
01:21:02,220 --> 01:21:02,840
space.
571
01:21:39,000 --> 01:21:40,400
OK.
572
01:22:05,720 --> 01:22:07,120
OK.
573
01:22:32,080 --> 01:22:33,480
OK.
574
01:23:01,220 --> 01:23:02,620
OK.
575
01:23:17,340 --> 01:23:20,000
OK. OK.
576
01:23:22,720 --> 01:23:25,880
OK. OK.
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