Whales are some of the most mysterious animals on Earth. They appeared in stories from the Book of Job in the Bible, and every time passing new aspects of these aquatic mammals (of the order Cetacea) are discovered.
After all, are 78 species of whales on the planet, and many of these findings have amazing or even quite bizarre facts about them. You want to know a few? So check.
Whale-white (beluga) love music
Did you know that the white whales (belugas also called) love music? Well, from one point of view, we can never know if they really like some music and have their own collection of old LPs on the seabed. However, they respond to musical stimuli, expressing great curiosity and sometimes even dancing.
Projectile gifted 1879 found by researchers in a narwhal whale
The narwhal whale can live for over 200 years
In 2007, a whale-narwhal (one with a sharp horn, also known as whale unicorn) was found dead on a beach. It was studied by scientists and had something very strange embedded in his body.
Upon closer inspection, the researchers found what appeared to be a weapon fragment dates back to a patent registered in 1879. This suggests that the narwhal whale has survived an attack bullet occurred over a hundred years before. Scientists do not yet know exactly how long lives this species, and most die between the ages of 60 and 90 years.
Humpback whales have best friends
A research group of humpback whales have used photographic techniques to study the species over the past 16 years. At that time, researchers have begun to realize that female whales not only make friends but gather every year.
Humpback whales remember their friends and can find them by the ocean among other whales of the same species. This was a surprising finding because until then, scientists believed that humpback whales were not very sociable with each other.
Whales sperm whales sleep vertically
"Songs" Whale spread like music Pop
Scientists studying the songs of humpback whale discovered something very strange. The rise and decline of the song of a whale are much like that of a pop music in the "charts".
For all clarity, in any shared area for whales, all sing the same song. Over time, the music will change, and the new song is catchy enough, it will spread to other populations of whales.
They adopt other animals or objects
Most are usually very gentle, even to other species. For example, in 2011, a group of whales sperm whales adopted a dolphin with a deformity in the spine. The group he was presumably rejected because of their problem.
This made it very attractive whales for a social animal like a dolphin, but experts are still puzzled about why the whales so readily accepted the dolphin as a group member.
Similarly, but with a sad feature, the female-beluga whales are known to transform objects substitutes babies. Belugas have been seen carrying boards and other objects on their heads or backs, treating them like babies.
Ready Now you know how to please the Whales. Whether you do what you enjoy, sooner or later you will draw attention.