The songs are air moving around inside their heads. It makes the sound, even though the whales don't have vocal cords. The humpback song can be 20 minutes long, and they repeat the same song again ...

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Humpback whales overwintering in feeding areas may sing complex, progressive songs which closely resemble those associated with breeding grounds, according to a study published Jan. 23, 2019, in ...

The researchers suggest that, much like human infants, humpback whales might learn their songs by tracking transitional probabilities between elements and using the dips in these probabilities to ...

Humpback whales, however, constantly vary the acoustic qualities of their songs, dynamic changes that are counterproductive to courtship. Yet whale song is still largely considered to be a display of ...

Humpback whales overwintering in feeding areas may sing complex, progressive songs which closely resemble those associated with breeding grounds, according to a study published January 23, 2019 in ...

New words can spread from continent to continent, while technologies such as cellphones and drones change the way people live around the world.It turns out that humpback whales have their own long ...

Humpback Whales Share Songs Between Pods in the Pacific Ocean, According to New Research. Humpback whales are known to sing, though researchers have yet to identify the exact reason why. By.

The study, published Feb. 9 in the Journal of Comparative Psychology, analyzed songs from groups of humpbacks that were not in acoustic contact with each other, yet still produced acoustically ...

A humpback whale breaches west of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Calif., on Saturday, Aug. 22, 2015. (Scott Strazzante/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images) Editor's note: This story ...

The album “Songs of the Humpback Whale” hit record stores five decades ago, energizing the nascent Save the Whales movement and helped push Congress to pass the Marine Mammal Protection Act.