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.

Let’s explore why whales sing and how these mesmerizing sounds play such an important role in the continued survival of these most ancient of creatures. To Communicate Whale songs are a primary ...

In Australia’s latest survey of whale populations, humpbacks have been seen migrating north along the eastern coastline in ...

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 ...

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.

Humpback whale songs have statistical patterns in their structure that are remarkably similar to those seen in human language. While this doesn’t mean the songs convey complex meanings like our ...

The researchers suggest that, much like human infants, humpback whales might learn their songs by tracking transitional probabilities between elements and using the dips in these probabilities to ...

The latest release in the humpback whale’s haunting sound collection is a track so unusual that scientists hardly know what to make of it.. Unlike anything on the hit album Songs of the Humpback ...

A mother humpback whale and calf are seen on the coast of Brazil in August 2023. Researchers say they've discovered that humpback whale song is passed down over the years and changes — something ...

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 ...

Humpback Whale Song Follows Zipf’s Law, A Fundamental Law Of Human Language And some whales exhibit Menzerath’s law even more strongly than humans. Rachael Funnell ...