What the science of baby-speak can tell us about whale songs
Just like popular songs on TikTok, new humpback whale songs can rapidly spread across regions and populations to replace ...
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Whale Songs Follow the Same Mathematical Rule as Human Language
In the early 1970s, engineers listening for Russian submarines started detecting strange underwater signals. Using ...
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Whale Songs Aren’t Just Noise – They Have Surprising Similarities to Human Speech, Study Finds
A study finds that whale songs are similar to human speech patterns after breaking down the sound lengths and frequencies ...
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Pack-Ice Killer Whale Sounds — on Film
Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures, communicating through various vocalizations like pulsed calls and whistles. For the first time, researchers have recorded these vocalizations and ...
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Humpback Whale Song Shares a Key Pattern With Human Language That Might Make It Easier for the Animals to Learn
The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common ...
How is whale song similar to human language?
Whales use moans, snores, chirps and cries that are known as whale song. And now, a new study has found that whale song is ...
Some species of baleen whales may avoid attracting killer whales by singing too low to be heard
Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...
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How the Sperm Whales’ Clicking Sounds Can Keep Them Alive in the Greek Seas
A system called "SAvE Whales," developed in Greece and tested in the Greek seas, aims to minimize the threat of ship strikes ...
The ‘52-Hertz Whale’ Is The Loneliest Animal In The World—Here’s What We Know
Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.
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Some species of baleen whales avoid attracting killer whales by singing too low to be heard
New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...