The beginning of an idea ........

Too much time at sea talking to god on the porcelain telephone, listening to the haunting down sweeps of blue whales in the north east Atlantic, recording the 20Hz pulses of fin whales on pop-ups and sonobuoys and wondering. A 2005 sighting survey around south Georgia with the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), a chance meetings with krill scientists from BAS and the University of Hull, a krill pendulum, a canabalised sonobuoy and lots of electrical interference both on the hydrophone and in my head.  Plenty of time for questions to mature.

Why baleen whales?
I'll respond with a question or two of my own.  Have you ever been up close to a fin whale and marveled at their beauty, grace and agility or wondered how they successfully feed on animals no bigger than you hand? 

Why sensory ecology?
Dolphins do it with sound, they echolocate to navigate and find their prey. Baleen whales? No one knows! Perhaps they use touch, sight, sound, taste or smell or a combination of different senses at different scales .... watch this space!