Over a decade later, in 1967, biologists Roger and Katy Payne listened to Watlington’s recorded tapes. Based on the whales’ ...

A new study reveals a direct link between the structure of a male humpback whale’s song and its physical movement during a dive cycle. Scientists have long studied these prolonged serenades, but this ...

By listening continuously to the songs of baleen whales, researchers have uncovered striking differences in how humpback and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Endangered species humpback whales in underwater in Maui, Hawaii. Biologist Roger Payne first identified humpback whale songs in ...

A whale’s dive shapes its song patterns, suggests new research. The study using data from suction caps attached to the aquatic mammals is the first to connect an entire humpback whale song structure ...

Source: Christopher Michel, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Whale song is largely considered to be a display of reproductive fitness, akin to the melodies produced by ...

Newswise — BUFFALO, N.Y. – Humpback and bowhead whales are the only mammals other than humans thought to progressively change the songs they sing through a process of cultural learning. But maybe the ...

A humpback whale alters the pitch of its song when joined by a neighboring singer, a finding that opens a new chapter in the ongoing effort to understand whale song, some of the most structurally and ...

Older male humpback whales still got game. Elder whales have perfected their love songs over decades and are out-charming, out-singing and out-playing their younger rivals in one of the ocean’s most ...

For male humpback whales, singing is serious business. Their haunting, complex songs can last for hours and travel for miles underwater, playing a central role in reproduction during the winter ...