photo of a humpback tail fluke, Nate could’ve sworn he saw the words “Bite Me” scrawled across the whale’s tail. Because today, as he was shooting an I.D. The trouble is, Nate’s beginning to wonder if he hasn’t spent just a little too much time in the sun. in behavior biology, intends to discover the answer to this burning question―and soon.Įvery winter he and Clay Demolocus, his partner in the Maui Whale Research Foundation, ply the warm waters between the islands of Maui and Lanai, recording the eerily beautiful songs of the humpbacks and returning to their lab for electronic analysis. You see, although everybody (well, almost everybody) knows that humpback whales sing (outside of human composition, the most complex songs on the planet) no one knows why. And Nate’s spent most of his adult life working to solve it. It’s not a new problem in fact, it’s been around for nearly 20 million years. Whale researcher Nathan Quinn has a problem.
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