52-hertz whale

The call patterns resemble neither blue nor fin whales, being much higher in frequency, shorter, and more frequent.

[1] The calls of this whale are highly variable in their pattern of repetition, duration, and sequence, although they are easily identifiable due to their frequency and characteristic clustering.

It travels as far north as the Aleutian and Kodiak Islands, and as far south as the California coast, swimming between 30 and 70 km (20 and 40 mi) each day.

Children's cartoon The Deep episode 20 - the Nectin Family rescues a colorful Blue- 52 from a TV monster hunter and connects the whale to a long lost mate on the other side of the world.

The film was written and directed by Geoff Marslett, and stars Tom Skerritt as the loneliest whale.

[14] The feature-length documentary The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52, directed by Joshua Zeman, the director of Cropsey, and executive producers Leonardo DiCaprio and Adrian Grenier, was commercially released by Bleecker Street on July 9, 2021.

[15] The film follows Zeman and a group of five scientists and oceanographers on a quest to find the whale off the coast of California.

Montreal-based saxophone player and composer Colin Stetson's 2013 album New History Warfare Vol.

[22] The English folk duo Kathryn Roberts and Sean Lakeman included the song "52 Hertz" on their 2015 album Tomorrow Will Follow Today.

Santiz dives into themes of alienation, emotional struggle, and the search for understanding, mirroring the plight of the "loneliest whale.

[27] In 2014, American writer Leslie Jamison published an essay in The Atavist Magazine about the 52-hertz whale's popular appeal as a metaphor for loneliness and perseverance.