'They appear to move away from nearby males they hear. 'Minke whales appear to use this sound to space themselves out,' adds Mellinger. The noise was so strange, in fact, that before the study, several whale experts suggested he check in with the Australian Navy to find out if the sound could be traced back to one of its submarines.

'When I first heard it, I couldn't believe it came from a whale.' 'It's surprisingly loud and complex, and sounds like it's produced mechanically or synthetically,' he told the University of California Santa Cruz. The cyborg creatures that formed the whale-ships, and the space -faring purrgil were also considered whale-like species. Whales were a type of creature that existed in various locations across the galaxy which included the Cartusion whale, the ruhau-whale, and the oceanic starwhale species. The Star Wars sound has been recognised for over 20 years, but it wasn't until 2001, when NOAA Cetacean Sound Mapping director Dr Jason Gedamke and his team dropped a hydrophone array into Australian waters, that we had confirmation it belonged to the dwarf whales. Purrgil were a space-faring whale-like species.

(What we do know is that minke whales were clearly involved in the production of this 1990s hit). A long time ago in a galaxy far far away, the majestic purrgill traveled across the stars Inspired by the purrgill from Star Wars Rebels, now you can adopt. Bioacoustics expert Dr Dave Mellinger explains that despite years of study, we still don't really know how these marine mammals make the noise.

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