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Scientists in Hawaii study the purpose of humpback whale song. Each winter, a population of humpback whales migrates to its breeding grounds in the Hawaiian Islands. It is here that male humpbacks ...

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Humpback whale songs sound hauntingly beautiful to us but we still know little about song function. What's going on in the mind of a singing whale?

A humpback whale breaches in waters near Esmeraldas, Ecuador. Whales in Australia were found to be passing their songs to others in French Polynesia, which in turn gave songs to whales in Ecuador.

Each population of humpback whales spends the winter in the same breeding grounds. The males there sing loud underwater songs that can last up to half an hour.

"Although humpback whales have been studied the most extensively, other species of whales also sing complex songs that we are just beginning to understand," Guazzo said.