A humpback whale breaching in waters off French Polynesia. Whales in Australia were found to be passing their songs to others in French Polynesia, which in turn gave songs to whales in Ecuador.

However, a new study has revealed that humpback whale song actually shares the same statistical pattern of human language. There is an empirical rule called Zipf's law that all human languages follow.

The study, published Feb. 9 in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, analyzed songs from groups of humpbacks that were not in acoustic contact with each other, yet still produced acoustically ...

Whale song is something we humans listen to when relaxing – but new research has shown that, as a form of communication, it ain't messing around. A new study has found that certain whale species ...

The songs are air moving around inside their heads. It makes the sound, even though the whales don't have vocal cords. The humpback song can be 20 minutes long, and they repeat the same song again ...

Humpback whale song recording from 2017. Male humpback whales sing long, elaborate songs, which are composed of a variety of sounds strung together in repeated phrases and themes.

Humpback Whales Share Songs Between Pods in the Pacific Ocean, According to New Research. Humpback whales are known to sing, though researchers have yet to identify the exact reason why. By.

Male humpback whales create "songs" together, scientists say. Katy Payne was the first to hear the shifts in pitch and pattern in the collective calls as complex music — haunting, evolving tunes.

Study says humpback whale song is about finding, not attracting, whales Whale song is still largely considered to be a display of reproductive fitness, like the peacock’s tail and the serenades of ...

WHALE SONG A new approach to studying the songs of humpback whales (two shown here west of Mexico) finds that they may respond to each other musically. D. Cholewiak.

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New words can spread from continent to continent, while technologies such as cellphones and drones change the way people live around the world.It turns out that humpback whales have their own long ...