{"id":31380,"date":"2022-07-15T12:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/weddell-seals-regularly-produce-ultrasonic-vocalizations-underwater#id32154"},"modified":"2022-07-15T12:50:00","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T12:50:00","slug":"while-we-may-not-all-be-seal-nerds-were-sound-nerds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/while-we-may-not-all-be-seal-nerds-were-sound-nerds\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;While we may not all be seal nerds, we\u2019re sound nerds.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"356\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jmZ8uLwyxIo?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=transparent\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen title=\"Weddell seals produce *ultrasonic* vocalizations (Antarctica) - NEW scientific discovery!\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Can your synthesizer do this? Weddell seals regularly produce ultrasonic vocalizations underwater.<\/p>\n<p><em>The breakthrough discovery announced in 2020 was that Weddell seals also make ultrasonic calls&mdash;including when they&rsquo;re under the polar ice, where they&rsquo;re able to swim up to about 80 minutes on a single breath. Even the researchers thought of ARP synthesizers. (Okay, they&rsquo;re not synth nerds, so they said &ldquo;Star Wars&rdquo; but &ndash; they&rsquo;re not wrong.) Captured on a digital hydrophone, their ultransensitive broadband mic picked up high-pitched sounds that a standard mic (and our ears) missed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/cdm.link\/2022\/06\/weddell-seal-vocalizations-are-cooler-than-your-synthesizer-and-were-still-learning-more\/\">cdm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/weddell-seals-regularly-produce-ultrasonic-vocalizations-underwater\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>    Can your synthesizer do this? Weddell seals regularly produce ultrasonic vocalizations underwater.<\/p>\n<p>The breakthrough discovery announced in 2020 was that Weddell seals also make ultrasonic calls&mdash;including when they&amp;rsqu&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31381,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31380\/revisions\/31381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}