Fin whale song recordings by onshore seismometers open new horizons for cetacean coastal monitoring
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DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-97638-4
Abstract: Fin whales, the second largest animal on Earth, produce one of the most intense vocalisations in the animal kingdom. Monitoring these songs using ocean-deployed hydrophones plays an important role in the study of fin whale… read more here.
Keywords: whale song; whale; onshore seismometers; fin whale ... See more keywords
Whale song shows language-like statistical structure.
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DOI: 10.1126/science.adq7055
Abstract: Humpback whale song is a culturally transmitted behavior. Human language, which is also culturally transmitted, has statistically coherent parts whose frequency distribution follows a power law. These properties facilitate learning and may therefore arise because… read more here.
Keywords: whale song; language; statistical structure;
Voices of Humpback Whales: A New History of Whale Song Science, 1856–1986
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DOI: 10.1525/hsns.2025.55.3.209
Abstract: Abstract:The release of Songs of the Humpback Whale in 1970 helped galvanize a torrent of North American activism to save the whale from commercial whaling. Whale song quickly became a cornerstone of environmentalist and New… read more here.
Keywords: whale song; song science; history;