In the early 1970s, engineers listening for Russian submarines started detecting strange underwater signals. Using ...

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication ...

Two new studies have found eerily human-like sophistication in whale songs, challenging notions about our exceptionality and potentially shedding light on the evolution of language. Some whales can ...

A humpback whale using a bubble net to feed. A new hydrophone developed by a UC Davis physicist is enabling researchers to listen to the sound cues that the whales use to coordinate this feeding ...

A study published in Scienc on humpback whale songs has provided remarkable insights into the nature of nonhuman animal communication, revealing a striking similarity between whale songs and human ...

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 ...

Humpback whales can learn complex songs from other humpback whale populations in a rare cross-cultural exchange, according to researchers at the University of Queensland's School of Veterinary Science ...

The Redwood Region Audubon Society will present a talk titled “What’s Song Got To Do With It? The ‘Mystery’ of Humpback Whale Song” on May 16 at 7:30 p.m. at Six Rivers Masonic Lodge, 251 Bayside Road ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Humpback and bowhead whales are the only mammals other than humans thought to progressively change the songs they sing through a process of cultural learning. But maybe the humpbacks ...

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