Latest Squid Sisters Live reminded me; I don’t think I’ve seen anyone mention or post up the bonus Backstage track from the Live in Makuhari album despite reguarly browsing the Splatoon and Squid Sisters tags since forever ago. Highlights include:
0:25 - Going into squid form after they leave the stage. Outside of the Mario Maker costumes and the Splatfest team UI, this is the first time they’ve actually used them in any ‘normal’ capacity.
0:36 - “Let’s get ready!” followed by a highfive and giggling to each other.
1:32 - Callie (?) goes into squid form and starts bubbling, maybe an ink patch in their backstage area?
1:40 - “Hurry up?” “Hurry up!”
1:45 - Cuttlefish comes in, and they joyfully yell out and swim up to him before they all walk off together.
But a creepy chorus. Australian scientists have found evidence that certain species of fish actually sing together, in a chorus, each day at dawn and dusk. The results are published in the Journal Bioacoustic.
Researchers recorded vocalization of fish
over an 18-month period
in the coastal waters off Port Headland in Western Australia, and what they found were seven distinct fish choruses, happening at dawn and at dusk
Sound plays an important role in various behavioural functions and life stages of fish, such as spawning, feeding, territorial disputes or distress. Noctural fishes use calls to stay together when they hunt, while fish that are active during the day use sound to defend their territory.
Cataloguing the acoustic characteristics and temporal patterns of choruses and their locations is important, can provide significant information for long-term monitoring of vocal fishes and their ecosystems. A silent aquatic environment means ecosystemic problems such as lower species abundance and absence of fish.
Photo:
mulloway (Argyrosomus japonicus) by Rudie Kuiter
Scientists have released the first audio recordings taken from the deepest point on Earth’s surface, Challenger Deep, at the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Filled with strange moans, low rumbles, and the occasional high-pitched screech, the soundbites below shed rare light on the dark world that lies 10.9 km (6.7 miles) below the crushing weight of the Pacific Ocean… and they’re somehow both haunting and beautiful at the same time.
On the whole, we know very little about what goes on inside the Mariana Trench, located at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean around 322 km (200 miles) southwest of Guam, mostly because it’s so difficult for us to get to.
when we finally manage to wipe out 90% of life on the surface of our earth, it’s reassuring to remember that the great dark gods of the Trench will rise and repopulate with their minions
What a time to be alive though. We live at the convergence of all these technologies such that we can both drop a microphone down to the deepest point on earth and just casually share those sounds on a free to post free to share audio hosting site online and instantly have it heard by random bored people all over the world who have no real understanding of any of the more technical aspects of what it is they are listening too, but can still appreciated it, say “woah” and share it with all their friends, and then make some 100 year old literary reference to go with it.
