Just like popular songs on TikTok, new humpback whale songs can rapidly spread across regions and populations to replace ...
New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...
The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...
Whale song is more similar to human language than previously thought, research has found. The study, led by the University of St Andrews, revealed a previously undetected “language-like structure” in ...
In all three, they found that sound is produced by aerodynamic vibrations in specific parts of the voice box of baleen whales that are not present in toothed whales. These special structures ...
It's not exactly karaoke. These whale songs have been a source of fascination for decades. Professor Coen Elemans from the University of Southern Denmark is among a group of scientists who have ...
A system called "SAvE Whales," developed in Greece and tested in the Greek seas, aims to minimize the threat of ship strikes ...