The Amazing Intelligence Of Whales

By James Donahue

March 2006

In his lectures, Psychic Aaron C. Donahue likes to compare the intelligence of humans to that of whales, explaining that whales have larger brains, have shown evidence of great intelligence possibly beyond that of humans, but unlike the human, bound by the rules of nature.

This, Donahue says, is proof of man’s link to Luciferian intervention at some distant time in the past. The planting of the genetic link, the DNA of Lucifer, made us unique among all creatures on the planet. We are the only living creatures that build monuments and have the ability to destroy the planet on which we live and ourselves as well.

Some who have heard this lecture may question Donahue’s claim that whales are as intelligent as he maintains. Yet a recent study of whale songs, coupled with mathematical analysis, has revealed startling evidence that these giant mammals sing and communicate with a complex set of grammatical rules that change among the whale families and even with territory.

Whales combine sounds into phrases that are further weaved into hours-long melodies packed with information. Thus they have developed a form of language and appear to have a complex communication system.

Since they live in the sea, marina mammals such as whales, dolphins and porpoises do not have developed senses of sight and smell, thus their natural skills are linked to sound. They not only communicate with sound, they have an ultra-sensitive sense of hearing. This explains why Navy sonar devices drive entire schools of these creatures off course and sometimes force them to swim ashore where they die in the sun.

Environmentalists have expressed concern that these animals are being harmed not only by sonar, but the ambient noise in the world’s oceans caused by passing ships and marine seismic surveys.

Two groups of whales, the Humpback and the Blue Whale found in the Indian Ocean, are said to produce the repetitious sounds at varying frequencies known as whale song. The male Humpbacks perform these songs only during mating season and it is assumed the purpose is linked to sexual selection or calling the female.

Humpback Whales also make sounds that do not form part of a song, usually during courtship rituals, and they also make a third class of sound believed to be a feeding call.

Researchers Roger Payne and Scott McVay, who analyzed whale sounds in an extensive study in 1971, found that all whales in an area sing almost the same song but that song is constantly and slowly evolving. Also whales occupying the same geographical areas tend to sing similar songs while whales from other regions sing entirely different songs.

Even more amazing, as a song evolves, old patterns of the song are not repeated. In 19 years of listening to whale songs, researchers found that while general patterns in song may be heard, the same combinations never recurred.