People Are Trying To Find The World's "Loneliest Whale" With Help From A Kickstarter Fun Love
The whale has spent 20 years alone, singing at a higher pitch than all the other whales.
While most North Pacific whales sing at around 17 or 18 hertz, a pitch too deep for humans to hear, the unidentified whale sings at 52 hertz, earning him the nickname "52."
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He was tracked for about a decade by Dr. William Watkins at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on Cape Cod, using hydrophones to record frequencies of the whale sounds during mating season. Watkins' paper on his findings in 2004 made 52 famous.
Kate Stafford, a researcher at Seattle's National Marine Mammal Laboratory, told the New York Times that year that the whale is believed to be healthy, but alone.
"He's saying, 'Hey, I'm out here,'" Stafford said. "Well, nobody is phoning home."
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