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  Coming up on The Children's Hour, we're learning about the largest animal to ever live on Earth,
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  which still roams the oceans today. Whales. Once hunted to near extinction, some whales
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  are making a comeback, while others remain critically endangered. We hear from a marine
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  biologist researching whale songs and background noise interference. And we talk with a Mexican
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  ponguero or a boat driver who teaches kids and adults about the friendly whales in his own
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  backyard. Mixed with great music, take a trip under the sea with the Children's Hour this
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  week to learn all about whales. The Children's Hour is produced by the Children's Hour Incorporated,
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  a New Mexico nonprofit. We're located at the sunspot. Solar Studio. It's time for the Children's
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  Tower. Kids call the radio.
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  Why do whales sing? I don't know why. Because they can't talk.
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  On a fateful day in the month of May, I was sitting catching fish. When a magic whale swam
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  up to the rail and said, please make a wish. So I said, well, gee, I'd love to be like you,
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  a giant whale. Next thing I knew, I was grayish blue. And I had a two-ton tail. Sing a whale
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  song. Sing a whale song. Sing a whale song As the flounder set to the oyster bed Sing
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  a whale song
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  With a mighty leap I dove down deep and swam out through the cove. Then a race to the top
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  did a belly flop and down again I dove. From the Arctic to the Baltic to the far off Hebrides.
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  Like a submarine through the deep blue green. I swam the seven seas and sang a whale song.
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  Sing a whale song. Sing a whale song. As the dog fish bark to the great white shark,
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  sing a whale song.
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  But there were some things I wish I could forget Like that garbage scowl off a curacao Or
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  that oil spill below Brazil Or getting caught in that giant net And I couldn't get out
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  and oh was I upset So I had to hail that magic whale who changed me back once more. Say it
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  now that you know the great below, we need your help on shore. To tell your tale of being
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  a whale and all you've seen and done, then wet and dry will unify. And all the world
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  as one will sing a whale song. Sing a whale song. uh Sing a whale song. From the smallest
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  ant to the tallest tree, from the highest peak to the deepest sea, all the world will ring
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  in harmony and sing a whale song.
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  Tom Chapin from a release called Moonboat. That's an oldie but goodie. This is The Children's
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  Hour. I'm Katie Stone. And today on the show, we're going to learn about whales. Our episode
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  today was taken from a show we originally broadcast live on KUNM FM in Albuquerque, New Mexico,
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  all the way back in 2006. Our kids crew back then was Jenna, Evan, Luna, Eli, Bryson, Crawford
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  and Enid. We have a lot to learn about whales today and you can learn more in our learning
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  guide at ChildrensHour.org. Look for whales. We have so much to learn, in fact, that we
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  better dive right in. Citations play an important role in the life of the ocean, serving as
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  flagships for the health and well-being of the whole marine ecosystem. Primitive whales evolved
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  about 50 million years ago from a hoofed land animal. to the marine mammals of today. And
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  scientists believe that the closest relative on land to a whale is the hippopotamus. Most
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  whales live in small groups called pods. People don't usually realize that whales have hair,
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  no long hair like humans, but short stubby hair that often disappears by the time the
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  whale grows into an adult. Whales, like birds, migrate. The Pacific gray whale migrates over
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  12,000 miles every year, starting as babies in the warm lagoons on the coast of Baja Mexico
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  and traveling all the way up to the Arctic Ocean, even going as far as the frigid waters
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  above Siberia. Well, that's quite a trip. And we're taking a trip today to learn all about
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  the magnificent whale right here on The Children's Hour. You can learn more at ChildrensHour.org.
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  Look for this episode. whales but first this is from Linda Yaps for the love of Hawaii.
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  Aloha Nā Kupuna, aloha Nā Kamali E ho kai o lākou mana o E ho mauna ho ilina A uala
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  o ka mauke kai E kona moku, e kona moku e
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  A u he a u e e ko hola Ke anu e nu e i ka mo Aueauea e kohola, ke anuenue i ka moana.
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  Aueauea e kohola, e holoholoana o hawaine.
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  It's long summer up in Glacier Bay But the Alaskan sun is fading away Snow and ice are
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  bringing a chill And the humpback whales have had their fill Of fish and frill
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  They've been eating all summer and their bellies are full Now the whales are feeling that natural
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  pump To head down south to sing their song Winter in Hawaii is where they belong The
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  whales know It's time to go They're feeling that sensation It's time to change location
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  Make the big mic, make the
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  I'll shut it down some.
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  They'll sip the waves and get their flukes in gear The journey is long, they make it twice
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  a year It takes determination To make it to their destination To their winter home
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  say hello to a passing ship with a bridge and a flow and a fancy flip. The planet guides
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  them with gravitation. They follow the sun for navigation. The whales know where to go.
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  They're feeling that It's time to change location And make the big, make the big migration
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  Head down site
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  They live off their blubber so they don't need to eat Just sing and play
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  These are born under Hawaiian sun They're never small, they start out weighing a ton The cats
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  are hungry and their mamas are too So what's a hungry humpback whale gonna do? The whale
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  They're feeling that sensation It's time to change location And make the big mic, make
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  the big mic Make the big migration head back north
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  There's a nice warm winter in Hawaii down south But the north is the place to catch fish in
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  the mouth Whales come together and blow a bubble net And scoop a ton of fish without breaking
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  a sweat The whales know how to blow It's another summer up in Glacier Bay They'll stay
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  until the sun starts fading away When snow and ice start bringing a chill And they've had
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  their fill of fish and crew The whales will know It's time to go The whales know When
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  it's time to go
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  You're listening to The Children's Hour. I'm Katie Stone. That was Dana with her song, Migration.
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  Today we're learning about whales. There are many stories about whales all over the world.
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  This one is from the United Kingdom. It's written by Julia Donaldson and was released in 2003
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  as a children's picture book. It won many awards and has been adapted into a film in 2019. It's
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  illustrated by Alex Scheffler and published by Macmillan Press. The Snail and the Whale.
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  This is the tale of a tiny snail in a great big gray-blue humpback whale. There was a
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  rock as black as soot and there was a snail with an itchy foot and the sea snail slithered
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  all over the rock and gazed at the sea and the ships and the dock and as she gazed she Sniffed
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  and sighed. Oh the sea is deep and the world is wide how I long to sail Said the tiny
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  snail But the other snails in that snail flock all stuck together tight to the smooth black
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  rock and said to the snail with the itchy foot Be quiet don't wiggle sit still stay put but
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  the tiny sea snail just sniffed and sighed then cried I've got it. I'll hitch a ride So all
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  over the rock, this tiny snail made a shimmery, slimy, handwriting trail, a silvery trail
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  that looped and curled and said, ride wanted around the world.
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  And then a whale came by one night when the tide was high and the stars were bright. A
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  humpback whale, immensely long, who sang to the snail a wondrous song of shimmering ice
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  and coral caves and shooting stars and enormous waves. And the humpback whale raised his great
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  big tail. He held it out of the starlit sea and said to the snail, come sail with me.
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  And off to the sea so wild and free swam the great big whale with the snail on his tail
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  to towering icebergs and far-off lands with fiery mountains and golden sands and dashing
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  waves that arched and crashed and foamed and froliced and sprayed and splashed the tiny
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  snail on the tail of the whale. And there were caves beneath the waves where colorful fish
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  with leathery fins and sharks with hideous toothy grins swam past the whale and the snail on
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  his tail. And there was the sky so vast and high, sometimes sunny and blue and warm, sometimes
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  filled with a thunderstorm, with zigzag lightning flashing and frightening the tiny snail on
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  the tail of the whale. She gazed at the sky, the sea, the land, the waves and the caves
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  and the golden sand, She gazed and gazed, amazed by it all, and she said to the whale, I feel
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  so small.
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  There came a bad day when the whale lost his way and got him in speedboats running a race,
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  digging and zooming all over the place, upsetting the whale with their ear-splitting roar, making
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  him swim too close to the shore. And there went the tide, just slipping away, leaving
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  the whale lying beached in a bay. Quick, off the sand, back to the sea! cried the snail.
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  I can't move on land, I'm too big! moaned the whale. The snail felt helpless and terribly
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  small. Then, I've got it, she cried and started to crawl. I'd better not fail, said the tiny
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  snail. Then she heard the bell from the school on the bay, ringing the children in from their
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  play. And there was the teacher holding her chalk, telling the class, sit straight, don't
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  talk. And there was the board as black as soot, and in came the snail with the itchy foot.
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  A snail, a snail! The teacher turned pale. Look, the children, it's leaving a trail.
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  And there was the trail of the tiny snail, a silvery trail, saying, please save the whale.
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  Yelling and shouting, the kids ran from school, catching the firemen, digging a pool, squirting
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  and spraying to keep the whale cool. And here came the tide coming into the bay, and there
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  were the villagers shouting, Hooray! As the whale and the snail traveled safely away.
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  dock and the flock on the rock who said, how time's flown and haven't you grown? And the
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  whale and the snail told their wonderful tale of shimmering ice and coral caves and shooting
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  stars and enormous waves and of how the snail, so small and frail, with her looping, curling,
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  silvery trail, saved the life of the humpback whale. Then the humpback whale held out his
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  tail and on crawled snail after snail after snail and they sang to the sea as they all
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  set sail on the tail of the gray blue humpback whale.
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  first heard a song of kawaii when I was just a girl I remember filling my heart back then
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  with love
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  swimming with the whole new world.
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  came ringing a song
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  Swimming the ocean so free For 22 years I've been listening to you Now I'm back, verse 23
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  And here you make this long journey to the Isle
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  you
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  you
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  sea waters to the calm and gentle seas. It must make you happy to come back and be home
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  just like me.
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  Swimming in the ocean so free For 22 years I've been listening to you Now I'm back for
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  verse 23
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  That's Linda Yap with Kohola's song, the song of the humpback whale, verse 23. You're listening
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  to The Children's Hour and today we're learning about whales through stories and music. And
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  there's a lot more information for you in our learning guide at childrenshour.org. Look for
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  whales. Coming up, we've got a discussion with Melania Guerrera. She's a scientist who studies
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  the vocalizations of whales. You're listening to The Children's Hour. Kids Public Radio.
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  Setting our sails, hunting for whales, without harpoons. Just binoculars, watching them jump,
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  watching them play. Oh, I could sit and watch them all day. Setting our sails, hunting for
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  whales without harpoons Just binoculars up the coast in the deep blue sea I hope to see
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  a whale and a whale to see me A friend who sees a circus with his giant acrobats
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  Get to see a whale jump like that Splashing through waves and having such fun Putting
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  on a show For everyone big and blue And tons of fun I never want this show to ever be
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  done
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  A friend who sees the circus with his giant acrobats You never thought you'd ever get
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  to see a whale jump like that. Setting our sails, hunting for whales, without harpoons.
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  Just binoculars, watching them jump, watching them play. Oh, I could sit and watch them
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  all day. Oh, I could sit and watch them all day. Oh, I could sit and watch them all day.
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  That's Steve Pallara and his cool Beans band right here on the Children's Hour where we're
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  learning about whales. You can learn a lot more in our learning guide. Find it at childrenshour.org.
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  Look for whales. There's so much to learn about whales we have to keep diving deeper. There
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  are two different types of whales, toothed whales and baleen whales. Toothed whales include
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  porpoises, orcas, and dolphins. They almost look like they're smiling, but don't be fooled
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  by their grin. These whales eat other whales, including the babies, as well as fish and sea
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  mammals in one bite. The other type of whale is the baleen whale. These whales have baleen
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  plates instead of teeth. Baleen is a lot like having thousands of fingernails in your mouth,
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  which these whales use to strain the water for krill. Baleen whales have two blowholes while
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  toothed whales only have one. Blue, gray, humpback, bowhead, minky, and right whales
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  are all baleen whales. The blue whale is the largest animal that ever lived on earth, even
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  bigger than any of the dinosaurs. A full-grown blue whale is about 80 to 100 feet long, and
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  a brand new baby whale is 25 feet long. Blue whales weigh up to uh 174 tons. These huge
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  animals eat tiny krill and plankton. We used to think that blue whales were the loudest
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  animal in the world, with vocalizations reaching up to 180 decibels. But now we know that
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  sperm whales are much louder. Their clicks reach up to 236 decibels. That is loud enough
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  to kill a diver next to a sperm whale. This is the sound of the sperm whale.
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  Scientists believe that sperm whales and blue whales can communicate across the entire ocean.
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  Blue whales live in all the oceans of the world, but their sounds vary depending on where
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  they live. In order for us to listen to the calls of blue whales, recordings made by hydrophones
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  or underwater microphones must be sped up 10 times because the frequency is too low for
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  the human range of hearing. This is the call of the Northeastern Pacific Blue Whale.
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  Blue whale songs can last for hours.
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  and we know they're different in different parts of the world. There are about 10 distinct
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  types of songs in all of the different oceans, and each of the songs is related to a particular
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  area. There's a New Zealand song, a North Indian Ocean song, and you just heard the Northeast
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  Pacific song. This is an example of the Chilean song.
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  This is a sound of the Atlantic blue whale. Unfortunately, between hunting by humans, noise,
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  and other pollution in our oceans, blue whales are nearly extinct. Blue whales weren't commonly
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  hunted until after 1900, after the invention of the exploding harpoon gun and diesel-powered
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  boats. The slaughter peaked in 1931 when over 29,000 blue whales were killed in one season.
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  It's believed that only about 1 % of the population of blue whales is still alive today, with
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  the current worldwide population somewhere between 5 and 10,000 mature whales. There used to
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  be about 140,000. Blue whales are formally classified as endangered in the United States
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  as well as in the UN. Some blue whales are considered critically endangered, like the
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  Antarctic blue whale. The pygmy blue whale is so difficult to count that we don't really
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  know how it's doing. You can adopt blue and other types of whales and help researchers
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  study these endangered animals. Go to whales.org.
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  the whiz pops from Sea Blue Sea with Blue Whale. You're listening to the Children's Hour and
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  I'm Katie Stone. Long ago I went to something called Whale Camp. It was off the coast of
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  the Baja California and it's a bay called San Ignacio Lagoon where gray whales come to have
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  their babies. At Whale Camp we got to be with whale researchers including, at the time,
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  a student named Melania Guerra. She was studying the sounds of the gray whales. There are six
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  categorized gray whale sounds already. The most common one here in Mexico is what is
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  called pops. They sound somewhat like bongo drums underwater. We know so far that they
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  can communicate here in this lagoon for about one kilometer, at least, probably more. But
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  it depends a lot on the properties of the bottom and how the sound gets attenuated. Because
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  when the sound touches the bottom or the surface, a part of the sound gets uh transmitted and
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  a part gets reflected. I'm also looking at how background noise is affecting gray whales
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  because there's an effect called masking that if... There is an external sound or external
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  noise that is in the frequency band where the whales vocalize. They're going to try to vary
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  the call so that they can be better heard. That's equivalent, for example, if you're in
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  a very loud room when there's a lot of people talking. You're going to try to either have
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  a higher pitch above the crowd or vocalize louder or something to make you stand out.
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  I'm trying to look at what gray whales do to stand out among the noises that are present.
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  I haven't discovered yet how they stand out, but I've discovered that there is a pattern,
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  a daily pattern, that the background noise seems to increase at around 3 p.m. up until
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  9 p.m. And then it goes back down. During the rest of the night and during the morning,
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  the background noise is a lot less strong. And again, at 3 p.m. the next day, the background
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  noise goes back up. And we're thinking that it's a combination of the boat noise and also
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  the evening chorus of the croakerfish.
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  fish tend to make a lot more noise after the sun sets. Win or win, it's a win-win
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  Well, oh well, it's a whale, whale, whale To always amaze us, she will never fail She
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  could throw a party on her giant tail Well, oh well, it's a whale, whale, whale
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  11 C's, she can choose to roll She can swim a thousand miles and never leave her home He
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  has a group of friends that are called upon
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  She will never fail She could throw a party on her
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  You
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  Yeah!
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  He's a good friend and a super-money-
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  To always amaze us, she will never fail She's been so a party on a giant tail
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  Yeah
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  I'm off on an adventure and I'm following the whale
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  Steady on the teller mate Taste the spray Mmm salty Following the trail to the dawning
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  of the day
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  She sings, she dives, she turns, and races to the sunlight. She'll breach, she'll fly,
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  and I'll learn. Following the whale, she sprayed from the thick of her tail. Following the
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  whale, she sprayed from the thick of her tail.
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  Scrub the jet while you're at it. Wait to tech and feed the cat. I'm following the way of
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  She sings, she dives, she turns, and races to the sunlight. She'll breach, she'll fly,
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  and I'll learn.
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  Seaspray from the thick of her tail Follows
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  is Levity Beat. And before that, Farmer Jason, you're listening to The Children's Hour. This
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  is a show all about whales. You're listening to The Children's Hour, kids public radio.
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  Baby beluga in the deep blue sea Swim so wild and you swim so free Heaven above and the
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  sea below And a little white whale on the go Baby beluga Baby beluga Is the water warm?
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  Is your mama home with you so happy? Wait down yonder where the dolphins play, where you dive
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  and splash all day. Waves rolling and the waves roll out. See the water squirting out of your
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  spout. Baby beluga, oh baby beluga. Sing your little song, sing for all your friends we
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  like to hear you.
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  It's dark, you're home and fed Curl up snug in your waterbed Moon is shining and the stars
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  are out Goodnight little whale, goodnight Baby beluga, oh baby beluga With tomorrow's sun,
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  another day's begun You'll soon be waking Baby beluga in the deep blue sea Swim so wild and
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  you swim so free Heaven above and the sea below And a little white whale on the go You're just
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  a little white whale on the go
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  Raffy, an oldie but goodie with baby beluga. I'm Katie Stone. You're listening to the Children's
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  Hour and we're talking about whales. We're learning about whales. And maybe about 10 years ago,
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  my friend Mary and I got to go to Baja, California, where we went to whale camp. It's where we
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  met Melania Guerra, who we talked to earlier about gray whale sounds. Whale camp is located
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  on a lagoon off the Pacific coast, which is the birthing waters of the Pacific gray whale.
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  Grey whales have come back from the brink of extinction thanks to protective whale legislation
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  that outlaws whaling in most parts of the world. In San Ignacio Lagoon, whale mothers and their
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  babies are protected from predators by a series of barrier islands. Nearly 300 whales were
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  living in this lagoon when we were there, and everywhere we'd look, we'd see whales spouting,
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  mating, spy hopping, jumping, and logging. That's when they rested the surface. Something
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  notable about these particular whales is how friendly they are towards boaters. About 40
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  years ago, a great whale approached a fisherman in these waters. The exchange lasted nearly
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  20 minutes, where he petted the whale and looked it straight into the eye. I got that experience
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  with my friend Mary, too. The whales, like all mammals everywhere, love gentle touch.
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  We got to pet a baby whale not more than two months old that was pushed toward our boat
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  by its mother. I felt the baleen and the baby opened its mouth and he put its tongue against
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  my hand. Our ponguero, which is Spanish for boat driver, was Chopi. I asked Chopi how
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  he'd come to be a ponguero and what he thought about the whales in his own backyard. Our
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  friend Marcos Martinez translated for us. My name is Jesus Orfil Ramirez Gallegos and I
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  work as a boat driver for the Coima Company.
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  I've been working 10 seasons. I started at about 18 years old and everything's really good.
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  When I was younger, my brothers would take us on family outings to go see the whales.
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  That's how I started learning about whales. We work about half the year, October through
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  December, in the lobster season. Then from January until April, we work with the whale watching,
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  and the rest of the time we do some fishing. Are there many friendly whales here in the
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  lagoon? Yes, there are some whales that return every year. They have markings on them, so
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  that's how we can recognize them. The whales are very friendly. We take the school kids
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  out to go see the whales. There's a town called San Ignacio, so the elementary school and the
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  middle school kids, and even some younger kids, some of them five years old, we take them
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  out to see the whales. How I got my nickname is that my younger brother, when he was about
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  two years old, he couldn't say Orfe. So he started calling me Chopi, and now that's what
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  all my friends call me. um
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  Navegando por el mar, va cantando melodías, la vallena cada día. Yes, gentlemen, every
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  day to all humanity beating in their hearts as if it were a drum. Whale has the key to
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  all information. Yes, gentlemen, has the key to all information. Whale, whale, whale, whale
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  of information. Whale, whale, whale, uh y vayemos su corazón. Ella es una biblioteca que van
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  dando por el mar. Todo el mundo la respeta cuando la siente pasar, sí, señores. La respetan
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  cuando la sienten pasar. Ballena, ballena, ballena. Ballena de información, la ballena. Ballena,
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  ballena. Balleno su corazón.
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  Sí, sí, sí, sí, sí, señores.
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  To all humanity, yes, gentlemen! Every day, to all humanity!
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  She is a librarian who
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  foreign Ballena, ballena, ballena de formación, la ballena, ballena, ballena, ballenos tu
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  corazón. Ballena, dános la llave para abrir tu corazón, porque tú tienes la clave y el
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  recuerdo del amor. oh Senores, tienes la clave y el recuerdo del amor. Ballena, ballena,
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  ballena de información, la ballena. Ballena de información. Ballena, ballena, ballena de
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  información, la ballena. Ballena de información. Ballena, ballena, ballena de información, la
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  ballena. Ballena de información. Ballena, ballena, ballena de información, la ballena. Ballena
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  de...
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  Ballena Ballena is colectivo animal featuring Daniel Roa from a CD called Un Bosque Encantado
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  2. You're listening to the Children's Hour. We're learning about whales and whales are
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  very talkative. They're almost musical, but to our ears, they sound strange. Listen to
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  the musical orca.
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  The orca is the largest member of the dolphin family, and it's a toothed whale. Orcas live
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  in pods of about five to 30 family members, and they have complex communication. Every
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  pod has its own unique sounds and songs. The difference between the sounds of the orca and
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  different families has been compared to dialects, like how a person from Virginia has a different
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  accent than someone from England. Orcas use echolocation, bouncing sounds off of objects
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  to determine their location and to hunt. When hunting, they use a series of high-pitched
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  clicks to stun their prey. There are two types of orcas, residential orcas who stay in one
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  place generation after generation, and transient orcas who roam the seas. Transient orcas are
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  the ones who eat baby whales, especially gray whales. Resident orcas don't eat baby whales,
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  but they mostly eat fish and occasionally other sea mammals like sea lions or seals. There
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  are so few orcas left in the world today that many individual orcas living in resident pods
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  have been photographed and identified by their unique color patterns. These photos are compiled
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  into catalogs. And those catalogs help scientists study the habits and the lives of orcas. Orca
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  whales are also called killer whales because of the way they eat their food in one bite.
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  But really, we are the killers of killer whales and orcas don't want to eat humans. There
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  are many things that people can do in their daily life to help our oceans recycle used
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  motor oil. Don't throw heavy metals down the drain and be careful what you flush down the
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  toilet. Educate yourself about your household cleaners. Kids can get educated too about
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  what's going on with whales. The Ocean Alliance is an organization that works on protecting
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  marine life. You can learn more about what they do at OceanAlliance.org. You're listening
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  to The Children's Hour and this is Lena from Switch On Global Telethon. Why does the right
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  will moan? Why is this way alone? We hope this will come back What can we do? How can
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  we act? With big hearts without greed Big hearts that fill a need Big hearts, what
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  can we do? Big hearts, me and you We can save the whales We can save the whales We can
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  save the whales We can save the whales Why does the right will cry? Why does the right whale
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  frown? there something we can do to turn this all around?
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  We need big hearts without greed Big hearts that fill a need Big hearts, what can we
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  do? Big hearts, me and you We can save the whales We can save the whales We can save
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  the whales We can save the whales Why are the lines so deep? Why are the ships so fast? They're
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  dying in our seas. How can these whales...
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  baby
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  can save the whales, we can save the whales, we can save the whales, we can save the
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  Just the right
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  You've been listening to the Children's Hour to a show about whales. Learn more about whales
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  at childrenshour.org. Look for this episode, whales. We're going to go out with Claudia
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  Robingun. Thanks for listening to the Children's Hour. We'll catch you next time. Baby, baby
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  blue. Baby, baby blue. Baby, baby blue. uh Baby, blue Baby, where are you? Baby, baby blue Show
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  me, show me with a flip-flop flip of your tail, baby boo will Tell me, call to me with a sing-song
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  sing of your song, baby boo don't be low
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  here.
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  Children's Hour is produced by The Children's Hour, Inc., a New Mexico non-profit. You can
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  find photos, playlists, learning guides, and activities for every episode at Children'sHour.org.
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  This episode of The Children's Hour was written and produced by me, Katie Stone, with production
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  help from Sean Loveless, Christina Stella, Sarah Gabrielli, Mackenzie Gronke, and Daniel
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  Lentz. Our learning guides are written by Amber Scheele. You can find this one at Children'sHour.org.
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  Look for this episode, Wales. Find our podcast wherever you listen to podcasts or go to our
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  patreon.com slash The Children's Hour. Or ask your smart speaker to play The Children's Hour
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  podcast. Our theme music was written by C.K. Barlow. The Children's Hour is distributed
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  by Native Voice One, the Native American radio network. Thanks for listening to The Children's
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  Hour, kids' public radio.