Humpback whales alter song pitch to avoid overlap with nearby singers, revealing flexible and responsive vocal behavior.

Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have uncovered the oldest known recording of whale song. And it reveals a noisier soundscape of today's oceans.

A Forgotten Whale Song Recording Is Giving Scientists New Clues About the Ocean ...

A forgotten 75-year-old recording is now the oldest known whale song, capturing the haunting sound of an ocean that once ...

Whale song can be as efficient as – and, in some cases, more efficient than – human communication, according to a new study in Science Advances. Meanwhile, new unrelated research in Science further ...

Findings suggest that humpbacks are the only mammals other than humans to possess this ability. “It’s kind of a bizarre ...

Researchers have discovered the oldest known audio recording of a whale song, made in 1949 off the coast of Bermuda. As ...

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The songs of humpback whales represent one of the most intriguing examples of non-human cultural transmission, wherein complex vocal sequences are learned, modified and disseminated among conspecifics ...

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new study suggests. By Emily Anthes The English language is full of wonderful ...

All human languages follow the same pattern: The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common word, four times as often as the ...

Once at risk of being wiped out, humpback whales charted a remarkable comeback thanks to their songs. In 1979, National Geographic issued a record-breaking album of those tunes alongside a story about ...