Guide Report
Campo Cortez, San IgnacioLagoon
By: Rodrigoro
Manterola
Week 2
The song remains the same…
Although most of the gray whale sounds are not audible for
us humans due to the frequency (lower frequency sounds) they, like all
cetaceans, have a complex communication system. Blue whales songs can travel
across the ocean while humpback whales songs are amongst some of the most
complex communication systems in the whole animal kingdom, including us.
Communication can take place anytime, anywhere. And also,
communication takes any form; like us, whales don’t narrow their communication
to just sounds; we normally use our body just as much as our words to transmit
an idea.
Whales can display a long list of body language and gestures
to communicate; breaching, fluke slaps and other behaviors are forms of
communication too but what they mean it is still uncertain.
To my understanding sound is the fabric of the universe as
vibrations mold the physical world we live in. The brains of dolphins and
whales have evolved to master sounds, odontoceti developed echolocation to perceive the world around them,
find food and, as recent studies also mention, to transmit information between
individuals.
Mysticeti on the other hand don’t have such an evolved
bio-sonar but their singing tells stories of life and names repeated amongst
individuals throughout the ocean.
Campo Cortez is a pallete of sounds and creatures. Coyotes,
ospreys and geese paint the air with elaborated s stories from the desert, but
sounds go beyond the animal kingdom. The morning winds bring the sounds and smells
of the mountains, the afternoon shifts the winds from the west bringing the
cool and humid breeze from the ocean while we think of long gone times when
only the gray whale roamed these lagoons in their long journeys along the north
American shores.
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| Mangroves in Camp |
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| Osprey and Nest at Camp |
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| Group of White Pelicans |
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| Dolphin Skulls on Beach |
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