The Longest Whale Song

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At school, her best friend starts to drift away and moody Martha starts a fight with Ella after a lot of nasty talk about Ella's mum. Ella though soon makes friends with Joseph and Toby whom are in her class, all the teachers are nice to her as well. As well as winning many awards for her books, including the Children’s Book of the Year, Jacqueline is a former Children’s Laureate, and in 2008 she was appointed a Dame. For 15 years, the navy kept the knowledge of whale songs a secret, until in 1967 engineer Frank Watlington gave recordings of the songs to biologist Roger Payne, who was a specialist in bat and owl vocalisations. Watlington had discovered that the whale songs consisted of a series of phrases that would be repeated perfectly, over and over. I enjoyed the story very much. I like Ella's bunches and red rosy cheeks. Things were bad at first but when Ella started her project she was a lot happier and she was excited because she was going on holiday."

I've only read the taster for this book so far and I think it's really good, although it's quite easy to read." Whales are social on a scale that is difficult for the human eye to perceive. Whales in southeast Alaska will maintain relationships for decade. They'll get together every year in similar locations to forage together ." How can whales actually sing? It’s tempting to think that as our understanding of whale vocalisations develop, humans may someday be able to communicate with whales.Professor Wenwu Cao in the Department of Mathematics at Penn State Materials Research Institute published a study last year in the journal Physical Review Applied describing how porpoises can use the oily material in their heads (described as a 'meta material') to create narrow beams of sound instead of regular sound waves that travel in all directions. He discovered that animals in the wild emit echolocation chirps that are up to 100 times louder than animals in captivity (the only animals that had been studied in detail). The animals vary the volume of their vocal calls, he says, to suit their environment – hence why animals in tanks are much quieter. This finding was so “astonishing” he says that his first research paper was rejected because the animal’s capacities seemed improbable. Jacqueline is also a great reader, and has amassed over 20,000 books, along with her famous collection of silver rings.

Prof Cao will continue to study the echolocation of toothed whales because this and other questions remain. As Prof Au, who studied dolphin echolocation for four decades puts it: “These are fascinating animals with very fascinating abilities – these are the things that keep zoologists going.” However, despite these restrictions, scientists have developed a theoretical understanding of how whale noises are formed. The book is good but confusing, there are too many things going on. This is the only Jacqueline Wilson book that is rubbish." I normally love Jacqueline Wilson, but I was disappointed with The Longest Whale Song. It seemed like a book to fill her contract, to be honest. Ella is very hard to like, and I think this is her worst ever book." Jacqueline Wilson wrote her first novel when she was nine years old, and she has been writing ever since. She is now one of Britain's bestselling and most beloved children's authors. She has written over 100 books and is the creator of characters such as Tracy Beaker and Hetty Feather. More than forty million copies of her books have been sold.

Butterscotch – Ella's guinea pig. Her real dad buys him for her when he comes to take her out. Butterscotch is described as very sweet and delicate, and he seems equally effected by the scenario. Mother would truly love him, and Ella wishes that she could bring him to the hospital to show him to her special mother. Long before the navy figured out how to harness the acoustic properties of the ocean’s depths to send signals as far as possible, whales developed behavioural strategies to communicate with each other over enormous distances: the call of a fin whale for example may travel 250km at the surface, but more than 6,000km in the deep sound channel. While apes are renowned for their colour vision, and humans like to think of themselves as visual creatures, cetaceans have no use for expensive ocular equipment. Instead, they have evolved some of the most distinct, complex and unique acoustic anatomy and behaviour on earth. Cetaceans see and feel with sound. You can see how echolocation would evolve if you’re in a dark environment like a cave or the deep ocean – there are in fact many blind humans who have learned how to echolocate, and even normal sighted people can tell if they are in a huge chamber or a crowded room just by listening to the acoustics,” he says. “But while bats have a typical mammalian ear, cetaceans have a much more specialised system.” Evolving for sound I can't wait to get this book, it looks great! I have read the extract from the Jacqueline Wilson magazine so I am already part way into the book!"

So it is no surprise the military realised they could learn a thing or two from dolphins about how to use sound underwater. Military scientists in four countries – the US, Russia, Iran and the Ukraine – have all worked with dolphins: one, to study how they echolocate in the hopes of designing better submarines and sonar detectors. And, two, to train them to listen for approaching submarines, reveal the location of buried explosive devices underwater, and uncover the identity of suspicious objects. And toothed whales, or 'odontocetes', are able to receive sounds through their lower jaw, which transmit the sound waves into the ear. Pitch perfect The Longest Whale Song is very emotional. I have just about finished all of Jacqueline's books and this one is the best so far!" This book looks really good, I love Jacqueline Wilson! I have read many of her books and I'm looking forward to reading this one." Find sources: "The Longest Whale Song"– news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( October 2011) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)Jacqueline Wilson wrote her first novel when she was nine years old, and she has been writing ever since. She is now one of Britain’s bestselling and most beloved children’s authors. She has written over 100 books and is the creator of characters such as Tracy Beaker and Hetty Feather. More than forty million copies of her books have been sold. I think it was an absolutely brilliant book, but I think that some of the chapters were very similar." This article does not cite any sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. It’s unsurprising that cetaceans - dolphins and whales - rely on sound more than any other sense to understand, navigate and manipulate their world.

Jacqueline is one of the nation’s favourite authors, and her books are loved and cherished by young readers not only in the UK but all over the world. She has sold millions of books and in the UK alone the total now stands at over 35 million! All humans have been doing for the past 70 years developing sonar detection equipment, really, is learning from cetaceans about how they do what they do, and trying to figure out how to use our own sonar systems in a similar way to what they have been doing for millions of years,” he says. Sound travels faster and further in water Under the waves, light vanishes. By just 200m below the surface, photosynthesis becomes impossible. At 1,000m down, sunlight disappears entirely , as explained by the National Ocean Service. The deep ocean – the largest habitat on earth – is also the darkest.My goal as a researcher is not to talk to whales. My goal as a researcher is to find out how whales talk to each other. And that is a big and extremely important difference,” she says. I have heard the first chapter and it sounds really good. I am going to get my dad to get it for me as soon as possible!" We don't know the exact function of the songs at this point. But it could be part of male-male competition, or to attract a mate. Or they could be a multi-message signal ,” says Garland.