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The album was an unexpected hit, quickly selling over 125,000 copies and eventually going multi-platinum, becoming the most popular nature recording in history. [8] [11] Sales from the album benefited the Whale Fund of the Wildlife Conservation Society, then known as the New York Zoological Society. [12]
Sounds of the Earth: Humpback Whales (Oreade Music) was released on CD in 1999. Rapture of the Deep: Humpback Whale Singing (Compass Recordings) was released on CD in 2001. Songlines: Songs of the East Australian Humpback whales. was released in 2009.
Additionally blue whales off the coast of Sri Lanka have been recorded repeatedly making "songs" of four notes duration lasting about two minutes each, reminiscent of the well-known humpback whale songs. All of the baleen whale sound files on this page (with the exception of the humpback vocalizations) are reproduced at 10x speed to bring the ...
Payne's recordings were released in 1970 as an LP called Songs of the Humpback Whale (still the best-selling nature sound record of all time) [7] which helped to gain momentum for the Save the Whales movement seeking to end commercial whaling, which at the time was pushing many species dangerously close to extinction.
Humpback Whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) [ edit ] Common humpback whale vocalizations on a windy day, recorded by the National Park Service, using a hydrophone that is anchored near the mouth of Glacier Bay, Alaska for the purpose of monitoring ambient noise.
It is one of Earth's most haunting sounds - the "singing" of baleen whales like the humpback, heard over vast distances in the watery realm. Baleen whales - a group that includes the blue whale ...
[1] Specially recorded whale vocalizations play intermittently throughout the work and include the songs of humpback whales and bowhead whales. [1] The whale recordings were done by Roger Payne and Frank Watlington, from the album Songs of the Humpback Whale. [citation needed]
Scientists who tracked humpback whales in Australia noticed that fewer whales wailed to find mates as their population grew. “Humpback whale song is loud and travels far in the ocean,” said ...