Eavesdropping on baleen whale songs in the Pacific Ocean reveals year-to-year variations that track changes in the availability of the species they forage on, reports a new study led by John Ryan, of the Monterey Bay Aquarium ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 26, 2025
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Frustrated with which dating app to use? Unable to find "the one?" Spare a thought for some of the animal kingdom, where humanity has hampered their efforts to find a mate.
Plants & Animals
Feb 13, 2025
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All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is known as Zipf's law.
Evolution
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Over the past few decades, animal sounds have seen a huge surge in research. Advances in recording equipment and analysis techniques have driven new insights into animal behavior, population distribution, taxonomy and anatomy.
Ecology
Jul 16, 2024
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Baleen whales are the largest animals to have ever roamed our planet and as top predators play a vital role in marine ecosystems. To communicate across vast distances and find each other, baleen whales depend critically on ...
Evolution
Feb 21, 2024
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The New York Bight is an important year-round habitat for endangered fin whales, according to new research examining fin whale song patterns.
Plants & Animals
Feb 15, 2024
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A team of researchers with members from the University of St Andrews, Universidad San Francisco de Quito and the CETACEA Ecuador Project's Acoustic Ecology Program has found that songs created by humpback whales in some parts ...
A University of Queensland-led study has found humpback whales can learn incredibly complex songs from whales from other regions.
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Jul 1, 2022
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It's that time of year again, when the humpback highway is about to hit peak blubber to blubber as humpback whales migrate up Australia's east and west coasts from Antarctic waters.
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Jun 22, 2022
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In a quieter era when a ship's progress at sea arrived only through the courtesy of the wind, sailors told stories of intriguing sounds coming from humpback whales. If conditions were curiously calm and a vessel through coincidence ...
Plants & Animals
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