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Spring reflection on the water. The red circle is jellyfish as is the white blob. |
This text above sounds like a poem. It sounds like the lyrics to a song. It is an actual fact from studying the bioacoustics of the Australian Great Barrier Reef. Tim Gordon's Doctoral research using underwater speakers and collecting samples in both coral reef areas and open areas discovered that the tiny coral larvae after weeks afloat in the ocean are able to find their way back to their coral reef.
I am in the process of reading The Sounds of Life by Karen Bakker. It is a book about the unsuspected depth and breadth of nature's sounds. Thus far I have read about the whales in a study that has verified they carry information from many generations in their songs. The Innuit knew this, but the white man didn't believe them until extensive studies on whale sounds verified it. Whale sounds that cannot be heard by the human ear can travel across the ocean.
The book also describes studies done on freshwater turtles in the Amazon that prove they make sounds that cannot be heard by the human ear These sounds are made even before the hatching that helps siblings survive by making noises so that they all hatch close to each other.
Most of these studies were done by scientists with determination (many women of course) but also men who searched hard and long for funding and support.
I may continue to enlighten those of you who would not be interested in reading such a long book in future posts, perhaps.
Such information makes me realize the interconnectedness of this planet and sad that I will not be around to find out more about how we all came to be. We are an amazing complicated biome that came from an explosion billions of years ago.
there are so many ways of being and they are all intelligent in their way. humans are arrogant and highly destructive to other ways of being because made up religions tell us we are the end all and be all.
ReplyDeleteSounds like a fascinating book. Loved the news about the turtle hatchlings. We are so ignorant of how the world works.
ReplyDeleteThank you! A book to read for sure.
ReplyDeleteIronic in our times today, many Americans seem to have lost their ability to hear common sense.
This is a wonderful and enlightening post, and your accompanying photography is perfect/
ReplyDeleteYou are most kind.
Deletewe're not as smart as we thing we are. there's much more to discover and it's going to show that other creatures know much more than we think.
ReplyDeleteThe more we learn, the more there is to learn.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite blogger philosopher.
DeleteIntriguing thoughts.
ReplyDeleteMy daddy always said "You will never have all the answers in your lifetime but the important thing is to always continue searching."
ReplyDeleteI agree with you, Tabor, am sad that I will not be here (in this old flesh anyway) and wish I could be here to see how things unfold. There is so much beauty and mystery and wonder in this beautiful little blue planet.
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