Culture, and the sharing of it across disconnected populations, is often thought of as a purely human trait. However, each time we attempt to draw a hard line between humans and the rest of the ...

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Humpback whales living on different sides of the southern Indian Ocean bellow very different songs, suggesting the behemoths don't mingle much, or at least they aren't freely sharing their musical ...

New words can spread from continent to continent, while technologies such as cellphones and drones change the way people live around the world.It turns out that humpback whales have their own long ...

The songs are air moving around inside their heads. It makes the sound, even though the whales don't have vocal cords. The humpback song can be 20 minutes long, and they repeat the same song again ...

Humpback Whale Song Follows Zipf’s Law, A Fundamental Law Of Human Language. Story by Rachael Funnell • 2mo. W hale song is something we humans listen to when relaxing – but new research has ...

The study, published Feb. 9 in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, analyzed songs from groups of humpbacks that were not in acoustic contact with each other, yet still produced acoustically ...

Humpback whale songs have statistical patterns in their structure that are remarkably similar to those seen in human language. While this doesn’t mean the songs convey complex meanings like our ...

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

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

The study, published Tuesday (Feb. 9) in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, analyzed songs from groups of humpbacks that were not in acoustic contact with each other, yet still produced ...