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However, the song is actually older than this and a form of it was published as a ballad before 1725. [2] It has been given a Roud number of 347. [3] The song tells of a whaling expedition that leaves for Greenland. The lookout spots a "whalefish", and harpoon boats are launched. However, the whale strikes the boat with its tail, capsizing it ...
The Cetomimiformes or whalefishes are an order of small, deep-sea ray-finned fish. Some authorities [1] include the whalefishes as part of the order Stephanoberyciformes, within the superfamily Cetomimoidea. Their sister order, the Beryciformes, includes the flashlight fish and squirrelfish. Within this group are five families and approximately ...
Female Cetomimidae, also known as a flabby whalefish . Living at extreme, lightless depths, adult females have evolved an exceptionally well-developed lateral line system. . Their eyes are either very small or vestigial and instead this system of sensory pores (running the length of the body in a distinct lateral line) helps the fish to accurately perceive its surroundings by detecting vibrati
Greenland Whalefishers. Greenland Whalefishers, named after the traditional folk tune The Greenland Whale Fisheries, [1] is a Norwegian folk punk band established in 1994, playing music influenced by Celtic traditional music combined with British punk. The musical style of this type of music is also referred to as celtic punk and paddy rock.
Whales are a widely distributed and diverse group of fully aquatic placental marine mammals. As an informal and colloquial grouping, they correspond to large members of the infraorder Cetacea, i.e. all cetaceans apart from dolphins and porpoises. Dolphins and porpoises may be considered whales from a formal, cladistic perspective.
The Navagraha Kritis are a set of nine songs composed by Muttuswāmi Dīkshitar, a great composer of Carnātic Music (Classical music of South India). Each song is a prayer to one of the nine Navagrahās ("planets" of Hindu mythology). The songs titles, rāga (musical scale) and tāḷa (rhythmic pattern) are listed below: The set comprises all ...
The noises that are made throughout the entire year (the main sounds being whistles, clicks, and pulsed calls) are used to communicate with other members of their pod. [ 8 ] Each sound a whale makes could mean something different. The clicking noises whales make are used for navigation. [ 8 ]
The velvet whalefish (Barbourisia rufa) is a deep-sea whalefish, the sole known member of its family Barbourisiidae. It is found throughout the tropical and temperate parts of the world's oceans, mainly in the Pacific near Japan and New Zealand, at depths of 300–2,000 m. This species seems very closely related to some flabby whalefish and it ...