Ort: Vestfjord, vor Skrova (2006) | Dauer: 8:33Įine Gruppe Langflossen-Grindwale (Globicephala melas) kam dicht an unser Boot heran und ein Männchen ruft, während ein anderer Wal antwortet. Not much is known about their vocal behaviour, but they are often very curious and you can find them travelling in large groups. Pilot whales are deep divers and feed mostly on squid. Then the rest of the group also came close to investigate us. The male was the first that came 10m close to our boat and he just lay there looking at us, calling. Location: Vestfjord, outside Skrova (2006) | Length: 8:33Ī group of long-finned pilot whales (Globicephala melas) came close to our boat and you can hear one male calling, and in the distance another whale answering. The Free Morgan Foundation made a small video, including this sound track.
This track is from Group P, which shares a lot of calls with Morgan the captive Orca. Sie hören Klicks, die die Schwertwale zur Echoortung benutzen, um die Heringe zu finden, Knattergeräusche, gepulste Laute und Pfeiftöne, die für die Kommunikation zwischen den Walen genutzt werden sowie Schwanzschläge, mit denen die Heringe getötet werden. Dann fressen sie die Fische einzeln, einen nach dem anderen. Die Wale drängen den Heringsschwarm dicht zusammen, wie zu einem Ball, und jagen ihn unter die Wasseroberfläche: Dort schlagen sie kräftig mit ihrem Schwanz in die dicht gedrängten Heringe, um diese zu töten oder zu betäuben. Schwertwale (Orcinus orca) in Norwegen fressen Heringe, indem sie eine spezielle Jagdtechnik anwenden: die Karusselljagd. Buzzes, calls and whistles are used for communication, and in addition you hear tail slaps that kill the herring. You hear many clicks, which the whales use for echolocation to find the herring. Killer whales (Orcinus orca) feed on herring using a method called carousel feeding: The whales herd the herring tightly together and chase it close to the surface, where they hit it with their tails to kill or stun it. An extremely moving and wonderful record which is great to listen to” Frans de Waard | VITAL WEEKLY
“… a beautiful collection of recent field recordings of whales, dolphins, sharks and seals in their marine habitat. “A lovely edition, which nourishes a joy of existing that very rarely materializes in most everybody’s existence nowadays” Massimio Ricci, Aufabwegen | Magazin Or search for it on iTunes and all other popular online music retailers. This album represents the best recordings of my 5 years of research and is now available online and it is my pleasure to give you the chance to listen to it online. You can’t do this with pictures or film footage and you can’t even do it by watching whales, you have to be able to listen. It’s about putting yourself in the perspective of the animals. Listening to them is a huge part of what we need, to better manage our world. Sound is everything for these animals and like I do, I want you to be able to dive into their world, to dive into their sounds.
Stipend: Landesgraduiertenförderung (post graduate funding of the state) for the Ph.D.Marine Mammals and Fish of Lofoten and Vesterålen.See also: Spiegel, SWR, Heise, theGuardian, Huffington Post, BBC, Time magazine, CNET, TheVerge, Newsweek, Science|Business, Le Monde. Peoples Choice Award 2015 of the AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence) for the video contribution " Mario Lives! An Adaptive Learning AI Approach for Generating a Living and Conversind Mario Agent".See also SWR (television), Radioeins, SWR3, SWR4, Wueste-Welle (radio), Scinexx (German news), Uni-Tübingen Press, Gizmag, The Stack, Quartz (English), Puissance Nintendo (French), Tendencias21 (Spanish), Nanopress (Italian), Genk (Vietnamese), cnBeta (Chinese). Nomination: Best Student Video 2016 of the AAAI for the video contribution " Mario Becomes Social!".GK Best Paper Award (2014-2016) for the publication "Just Imagine! Learning to Emulate and Infer Actions with a Stochastic Generative Architecture" in Frontiers in Robotics and AI.Innovation Grant: "Marbles AI - Towards General Artificial Intelligence in Games" (DFG-Project Zukunftskonzept 63).