Sing A Little Whale To Me

Again, I find myself writing about the recent, and last, episode, of Ocean Giants. This week was entitled Voices of the Sea and so focused on the beautiful vocal abilities of the dolphins and family. Each noise they utter is meant with purpose and is just as beautiful as any other human language. Amazon dolphins “talk” in order to make sense of the world around them whilst in Spotted dolphins they seem to converse socially with each other just as we humans do. There is more mystery however, surrounding the reason as to why blue whales “sing”. The fantasy is dead that they sang their mates to them, but I refuse to let my fantasy die that they sing for pleasure: watching them move their colossal fins in order to “feel” the music they were making, a sort of whale ballet dance hints to me that they enjoy music just as we do. To be honest, I’ve never been one to find whale music relaxing. Yes, I have always found it inspiring, magical and sometimes even eerie but I have never willingly thrown on a CD of relaxing whale music to chill out to whilst the stresses of the day slowly melt away. Yet, when I watched these massive mammals seemingly dance to their own music I found my shoulders relaxing, my thoughts stopping and there seemed to be no other sounds or images other than those of the whales. To me, relaxation is watching the world’s largest creature move with delicate grace to its own symphony.