It's Not Just Humans, A Good Meal Makes Whales Sing Too — This Is What Study Shows
3 weeks, 4 days ago

It's Not Just Humans, A Good Meal Makes Whales Sing Too — This Is What Study Shows

ABP News  

Lismore, Feb 27 : Spanning more octaves than a piano, humpback whales sing powerfully into the vast ocean. While blue whales only eat krill, humpback whales eat krill and small schooling fish such as anchovy. Our ability to probe the complex lives of these giants was enhanced for humpback whales because we had a unique data resource available for this species: extensive photo identification. An increase in food – and in song The study began in 2015, during a prolonged marine heatwave that caused major disruption in the foraging habitat of whales and other animals throughout the eastern North Pacific. Continued increases in detection of humpback whale song could not be explained by changes in the local abundance of whales, the timing of their annual migration, or the persistence of individuals in the study region.

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Why We Should Worry When Whales Stop Singing
6 days, 19 hours ago

Why We Should Worry When Whales Stop Singing

Live Mint  

-- A hungry whale is a quiet whale. A new first-of-its kind study found the marine mammals vocalized less after a marine heat wave decimated their prey, making whale songs a barometer of the effects of climate change on ocean ecosystems. Scientists at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and their colleagues analyzed whale songs recorded by underwater microphones in …

Do whales sing the same way as humans? New study finds language-like repeatable units
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Do whales sing the same way as humans? New study finds language-like repeatable units

Firstpost  

Human babies rely on a strategy called “statistical learning” to identify certain words and patterns as they get exposed to complex set of communication. New research published in the journal Science has found that the Humpback whale song is structured in a similar way to human language—where shorter sounds are used repetitively and complex words are used less often. It …

Whales communicate with a 'language-like' structure similar to humans
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Whales communicate with a 'language-like' structure similar to humans

ABC  

Across just a few weeks, complex, never-before-heard melodies sung by humpback whales can spread across thousands of kilometres of oceans. A new study, published in Science today, has found these whale songs share fundamental structural similarities with human language, showing that certain linguistic laws are not unique to humans. "We did a very meticulous deep dive into humpback whale song," …

Patterns emerge between whale-song and human language
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Patterns emerge between whale-song and human language

ABC  

Rachel Mealey: Humpback Whale Song contains some of the same structural hallmarks as human language, according to new research. An international team of linguists, developmental scientists, marine biologists and behavioural ecologists say the study reveals a deep commonality between human and whale communication systems. Rachel Hayter: A team of linguists, developmental scientists, marine biologists and behavioural ecologists has identified the …

How do whales sing? Lab experiments suggest their voice boxes have a unique feature
1 year, 1 month ago

How do whales sing? Lab experiments suggest their voice boxes have a unique feature

LA Times  

Scientists believe whales, like this humpback and her calf, have specialized voice boxes. In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature, Coen Elemans of the University of Southern Denmark and colleagues studied the voice boxes, or larynxes, from three dead, stranded whales — a humpback, minke and sei, which are all types of baleen whales. As loud as whales’ …

How do whales sing? Scientists point to a specialised voice box that other animals don’t have
1 year, 1 month ago

How do whales sing? Scientists point to a specialised voice box that other animals don’t have

ABC  

In short: A study published in Nature has found baleen whales have evolved over millions of years to use a modified voice box that generates sound without them choking. A study published in Nature has found baleen whales have evolved over millions of years to use a modified voice box that generates sound without them choking. Experts in the field …

How do whales sing? Lab experiments suggest their voice boxes have a unique feature
1 year, 1 month ago

How do whales sing? Lab experiments suggest their voice boxes have a unique feature

Associated Press  

LONDON — Whales sing loud enough that their songs travel through the ocean, but knowing the mechanics behind that has been a mystery. In a paper published Wednesday in the journal Nature, Coen Elemans of the University of Southern Denmark and colleagues studied the voice boxes, or larynxes, from three dead, stranded whales — a humpback, minke and sei, which …

Scientists discover secret to how the largest ever mammal sings
1 year, 1 month ago

Scientists discover secret to how the largest ever mammal sings

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy The secret to how baleen whales – the largest mammals to …

Citizen scientists learn how to capture whale songs in Whitsundays
1 year, 8 months ago

Citizen scientists learn how to capture whale songs in Whitsundays

ABC  

The distant humming of luxury boats can be heard whizzing around Queensland's picture-postcard Whitsunday Islands. They're sharing their observations and recordings of humpback whales with a long-term monitoring program run by the University of Queensland's Cetacean Ecology Group led by Professor Michael Noad. "We find a calm spot where there are not too many boats racing around … and then …

For toothed whales, sound production is all in the nose
2 years ago

For toothed whales, sound production is all in the nose

The Hindu  

Dolphins, porpoises, killer whales, sperm whales and other toothed whales produce an array of sounds - to find prey employing a sonar-like system called echolocation and to communicate with other members of their species. "Echolocating toothed whales make the loudest sounds in the animal kingdom by forcing highly pressurized air past structures called phonic lips in their nose," said Peter …

Australian humpback whales are singing less and fighting more
2 years, 1 month ago

Australian humpback whales are singing less and fighting more

The Hindu  

As eastern Australian humpback whale populations have recovered over the years, males have adapted their mating strategy in a highly strategic way, new research finds. I analysed 123 days' worth of data on Australian humpbacks, collected from 1997 to 2015, and found male humpbacks sang less and fought more as the whale population ballooned. As the eastern humpback population grew, …

Scientists calculate how much plastic whales are eating
2 years, 4 months ago

Scientists calculate how much plastic whales are eating

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “Large filter feeders like baleen whales evolved to process and filter vast amounts of the ocean,” Jeremy Goldbogen, one …

Humpback whales share culture and whole new songs across populations ‘very easily’, study finds
2 years, 8 months ago

Humpback whales share culture and whole new songs across populations ‘very easily’, study finds

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Humpback whales learn incredibly complex songs from whales in other regions with “remarkable accuracy”, according …

Humpback whales found singing off the coast of New York
3 years, 9 months ago

Humpback whales found singing off the coast of New York

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Using underwater sound recording equipment, scientists have found the first evidence …

Fin whales pick up new songs while migrating and bring them back to local populations, study suggests
4 years, 4 months ago

Fin whales pick up new songs while migrating and bring them back to local populations, study suggests

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But this theory “has been blown out of the water”, by a new study that …

Blue whale singing patterns predict migration, study finds
4 years, 5 months ago

Blue whale singing patterns predict migration, study finds

The Independent  

In the immense vastness of the ocean, sound is everything for whales - allowing them to communicate over titanic distances, and in some species, target food through echolocation. So many marine organisms use sound for a variety of purposes.” Recommended Humpback whales move north as scientists believe warm oceans are the cause Blue whale vocalisations can be detected by other …

Off the coast of New Zealand, humpback whales sing karaoke
5 years, 5 months ago

Off the coast of New Zealand, humpback whales sing karaoke

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But a study published in Royal Society Open Science reports there’s at least one place …

Scientists record singing by rare right whale for first time
5 years, 9 months ago

Scientists record singing by rare right whale for first time

Hindustan Times  

Federal marine biologists for the first time have recorded singing by one of the rarest whales on the planet, the North Pacific right whale. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration researchers used moored acoustic recorders to capture repeated patterns of calls made by male North Pacific right whales. It’s the first time right whale songs in any population have been documented, …

From the humpback to the Antarctic blue: why do whales sing?
6 years, 2 months ago

From the humpback to the Antarctic blue: why do whales sing?

The Independent  

Sign up for our free Health Check email to receive exclusive analysis on the week in health Get our free Health Check email Get our free Health Check email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. But they may also switch tunes when another male is nearby, apparently to assess a …

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT WHALE SONG?
6 years, 4 months ago

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT WHALE SONG?

Daily Mail  

For a long time it was believed that whales sang solely for mating purposes. Researchers have recorded humpback whales changing their calls when they move to new pastures in order to match the songs of others around them. Learning these songs may help whales pinpoint one another and group together better when in unfamiliar waters. Researchers have recorded humpback whales …

A Captive Beluga Whale's Remarkably Human Song
12 years, 5 months ago

A Captive Beluga Whale's Remarkably Human Song

NPR  

A Captive Beluga Whale's Remarkably Human Song Scientists this week published a study of a captive beluga whale in San Diego. The whale began to sing, apparently after spending time close to people. It died several years ago, but left behind a recording that sounds like a person in the shower. Scientists this week published a study of a captive …

Blue Whale Song Mystery Baffles Scientists
15 years, 3 months ago

Blue Whale Song Mystery Baffles Scientists

Wired  

All around the world, blue whales aren't singing like they used to, and scientists have no idea why. McDonald and his collaborators first noticed the change eight years ago, when they kept needing to recalibrate the automated song detectors used to track blue whales off the California coast. Since then, he and Scripps Institution of Oceanography researchers Sarah Melnick and …

Whales Might Be as Much Like People as Apes Are
15 years, 8 months ago

Whales Might Be as Much Like People as Apes Are

Wired  

As the annual International Whaling Commission meeting stumbles to a close, unable to negotiate a compromise between whaling opponents and people who've killed more than 40,000 whales since 1985, scientists say these aquatic mammals are more than mere animals. "If an alien came down anytime prior to about 1.5 million years ago to communicate with the 'brainiest' animals on Earth, …

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