Good morning.
Wednesday: It’s a cloudy day with a high temperature of thirty-nine ahead for Whitewater, a sunny day with a high of seventy-five for Los Angeles, and a mostly sunny day with a high of fifty-four in New York.
If you’ve ever wanted to help identify whale sounds, then Whale.fm is just the website for you:
The folks at Zooniverse have a new citizen science project for you to play with — matching up whalesong to try and analyze the watery leviathans’ language.
Sounds have been collected from both pilot whales and killer whales (both of which are actually species of dolphin). Each family of killer whales appears to have a distinct “dialect” that it uses to communicate, and closely related families appear to share calls. Biologists have begun to categorize those noises, but the species’ communication is still poorly understood….
If you head over to Whale.fm, you’ll be presented with a large whale call, placed on a Google map, and 36 smaller possible matches. Your task is to pick the one that’s closest to the original call, with the help of visualizations of what the audio sounds like.
