SO: DD-4 (First Timers)

Whales can hit 170 decibels when they make their incredibly loud sounds!! This is a lot louder than a jet engine!

In the colored image of a real whale skeleton in this section, the large flat shell-shaped bone over the top of the front ribs is called the spatula.

The whale’s brain is about five times larger than ours. Whales are not smarter than us, they just have bigger nerves than we do.

The nose bones of a coyote skull form the “roof” of the inside part of the nose. Whales have these bones too.

Whales in the ocean near New York can use their loud sounds and communicate with whales all the way across the Atlantic Ocean to Japan.

In WW2 subs learned that there is a unique section of the ocean at 3000 feet that we’ve now named the SOFAR channel.

When sperm whales beam their echolocating sounds downward, they can detect giant abalone below them.

The Titanic sank all the way to the ocean bottom–over two miles deep!

If you hear a huge pipe organ play and the notes move lower and lower until you can no longer hear them, you will eventually feel the vibration of unheard notes. These sounds are called ultrasound.

A man’s vocal cords are about 2/3 inch long and about as wide as a hot dog.

The vocal cords which make the human voice are alive! If our vocal cords weren’t alive and they were damaged in situations when we scream too much like at football games or at camp, they would be permanently damaged.

The white strips in the picture below are vocal hyoids.

The vocal cords are just below the place where the food enters the food-only section of the esophagus. The trachea tube then takes the food to the stomach.

A man’s vocal cords (the white parts above) are wider and longer than a woman’s.

The longer length and greater thickness of elephants’ vocal cords is what makes it possible for elephants to make sounds deeper than we can hear.

In the evening, elephants can sometimes communicate over ten miles.

Making infrasound for long-distance communication is important for elephants.

Elephants can “hear” the ground vibrating from infrasound with their feet. They can hear the thumping of helicopter blades 90 miles away and even hear thunderstorms over 100 miles away!

The colossal squid can weigh up to 1600 pounds. The blue whale likes to eat them!

A colossal squid has one of the biggest eyes on earth, measuring almost two-and-a-half feet wide.

List 2 summaries of the devotional parts in this article and give a different personal application to each.