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WHALE SOUNDS & SONGS OF THE SEA
Bienvenido to a special page.
Whale sounds and the underwater symphony of life.
Lobster chatter and . . .
Singing from the great whales to the tiny reef dwellers. . .
Songs of the Sea.
Humpback Whales
Whale watching has become an important Costa Rica vacation activity, particularly along the central and southern Pacific coasts.
It is aided by the fact that it has the longest humpback whale viewing season in the world because these creatures travel here from both the southern and northern hemisphere.
When you travel Costa Rica, take some time to take a whale tour.
Humpbacks are famous for their complex
whale songs.
Save the Whale to Save the Planet
FACTOID: Whales store carbon like huge trees. Restoring stocks of baleen whales (like the blue whale, gray whale, humpback whale and right whale) to pre-whaling populations would sequester the same amount of carbon as planting a new forest the size of Rocky Mountain National Park!
Click to learn more about how important whales are to saving the planet in this great study about
whales and carbon sequestration.
Pilot Whales
And, speaking of that Costa Rica vacation, you might come across pilot whales. If so, they will probably be in deeper waters than humpback whales frequent.
There are long finned and short finned pilot whales in Costa Rica, though they tend to stay segregated.
These critters are the second largest toothed species of porpoise and can reach about 19 feet in length and weigh as much as 5,000 pounds.
Only the mighty Orca or Killer Whale is larger.
Should you be lucky enough to see pilot whales, you might see a pod of 20-90 or even more for they often travel and hunt using their vocal communications to keep prey like squid, other cephalopods, and small fish in the center of their pods.
There are few things in nature more fascinating than Orcas, often called Killer Whales.
Many people first meet one at Sea World. Very beautiful, very smart, very gentle.
But, in the oceans, from the Arctic to the tropics, including Costa Rica, these are the most fearsome mammalian hunters of them all. Listen to the songs of
Killer Whales.
Blue Whale Songs
They're the biggest animal on earth.
Ever.
Listen to the captivating
Spiny Lobster
Lobsters have been commercially fished off Central America for more than a century.
The Costa Rica lobster fishery is small with perhaps 300 or so fishermen.
Costa Rica diving is the primary method to capture these animals along the Caribbean Coast from Cahuita south to La Amistad International Park that extends from Costa Rica into Panama.