Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be investigated for this law due to data constraints. Humpbacks, famous for ...

TWO fishermen have rescued a humpback whale which was entangled in rope off the coast of Skye. The pair of creel fishermen were fishing in the southern area off the coast of the Scottish island when ...

A mother humpback whale and calf are seen on the coast of Brazil in August 2023. Researchers say they've discovered that humpback whale song is passed down over the years and changes — something ...

In new research published in Science, our team of experts in whale song, linguistics and developmental psychology analysed eight years’ of song recordings from humpback whales in New Caledonia. Led by ...

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Two fisherman have rescued a humpback whale found entangled in creel fishing gear off the coast of Skye. The creel fishermen had been fishing further south when they received a report of the ...

In Antarctica, a scientist waits patiently for two frolicking humpback whales to poke their tails out of the icy waters so she can take a photographic “fingerprint” of the unique colours and ...

“They go at it for hours, and even days,” says Dr. Natalia Botero-Acosta, a humpback whale expert at University of California Santa Cruz and a director of the Macuáticos Colombia Foundation. In this ...

Whale songs share patterns with human language transmission Humpback whale song is culturally transmitted like human speech Findings suggest complex communication exists in non-human species ...

Condrik Tenerife, a shark and stingray research and conversation organization, spotted a humpback anglerfish off the coast of Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands last week. Commonly known as the ...

Working with several other researchers, the study analysed the groans, moans, whistles, barks, shrieks and squeaks in humpback whale song recordings collected over eight years in New Caledonia. "I've ...