For male humpback whales, singing is serious business. Their haunting, complex songs can last for hours and travel for miles ...

Scientists could record humpback whale songs traveling for miles, but what the whale's body was actually doing during those hours of singing remained a stubborn mystery. Now a clever tagging method ...

A new study reveals a direct link between the structure of a male humpback ...

The findings could help infer whale behavior from acoustic recordings alone. The post Study finds whales sing for up to 16 hours non-stop while diving appeared first on Talker.

Source: Christopher Michel, via Wikimedia Commons. Distributed under a CC BY 2.0 license. Whale song is largely considered to be a display of reproductive fitness, akin to the melodies produced by ...

Humpback whales may be matching their underwater songs to their dive choreography. Researchers found different song themes ...

Psychology professor Eduardo Mercado III wasn’t impressed as a young researcher in the 1990s when he first heard humpback whales singing. A groundbreaking expert on whale song, Mercado is a cognitive ...

A humpback whale alters the pitch of its song when joined by a neighboring singer, a finding that opens a new chapter in the ongoing effort to understand whale song, some of the most structurally and ...

Listen to the 3D immersive whalesongs captured by nature sound recordist Thomas Rex Beverly and learn how Sennheiser and a bespoke 3D hydrophone array produced spatialized recordings never captured ...