A slice of the blues
This post is very short and has nothing to do with innovation, growth or business.
A new population of whales were discovered cavorting in the Indian Ocean.
When I read this piece of news last night, it made me smile. I thought that instead of writing another ‘10 things we learnt in 2020’ or ‘Ten trends that will transform everything in 2021’, I will share this at the end of the year, in which we have all felt the blues in some shade or the other.
A totally new population of blue whale has been discovered and the reason the researchers are confident about this is because they have their own signature tune. As the lead author of the study puts it, it’s like hearing different songs within a genre.
From the NYT article:
The covert cadre of whales, described in a paper published last week in the journal Endangered Species Research, has its own signature anthem: a slow, bellowing ballad that’s distinct from any other whale song ever described. It joins only a dozen or so other blue whale songs that have been documented, each the calling card of a unique population.
“It’s like hearing different songs within a genre — Stevie Ray Vaughan versus B. B. King,” said Salvatore Cerchio, a marine mammal biologist at the African Aquatic Conservation Fund in Massachusetts and the study’s lead author. “It’s all blues, but you know the different styles.”
The scientists picked up over a few years the same tune off the coast of Madagascar, along the coast of Oman, in the Arabian Sea, and in the central Indian Ocean, near the Chagos Archipelago. The researchers ruled out the possibility that the tune could be from an existing discovered group. It was as distinctly different as the sound of BB King’s guitar is from Stevie Ray’s. I will leave you with two of my favourite tracks from the two artists.
Pride And Joy from Stevie Ray Vaughan:
And The Thrill Is Gone by BB King:
Happy listening and wishing you a very happy new year.
See you on the other side.
Cheers!
Suprio
Nice one Suprio. Your post made me smile too. Hope you are doing well and wishing you all the best and a happy new year ahead!
Very cool Suprio. Nice way to sign off on the year.