{"id":30945,"date":"2015-12-09T02:01:45","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T02:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/scientists-may-have-discovered-a-new-kind-of-humpback-whale-sound\/"},"modified":"2015-12-09T02:01:45","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T02:01:45","slug":"scientists-may-have-discovered-a-new-kind-of-humpback-whale-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/city\/hawaii\/scientists-may-have-discovered-a-new-kind-of-humpback-whale-sound.html","title":{"rendered":"Scientists May Have Discovered A New Kind Of Humpback Whale Sound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biologists have long known that humpback whales use different sounds &#8212; including <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">clicks, whistles and pulsed calls<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But one researcher has heard a set of\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">mysterious, low-frequency sounds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Imagine a heartbeat,&#8221; Jim Darling, a research biologist at <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">Whale Trust Maui<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To be clear, no one knows for sure that the previously unheard sounds are actually being made by humpback whales. But on various occasions since 2005, the sounds have been heard while humpbacks were in the vicinity of recording equipment. In the most recent case, the release says, &#8220;any fluctuation in volume appeared to match the whales\u2019\u00a0approach to the boat,\u00a0and no other species of whales were known to be in the area at the time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One theory, National Geographic reports, is that the sounds could be\u00a0<a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">related to mating<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biologists have long known that humpback whales use different sounds &#8212; including clicks, whistles and pulsed calls But one researcher has heard a set of\u00a0mysterious, low-frequency sounds &#8220;Imagine a heartbeat,&#8221; Jim Darling, a research biologist at Whale Trust Maui To be clear, no one knows for sure that the previously unheard sounds are actually being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-30945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hawaii","tag-hawaii-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30945\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}