Humpback Whales Sing the Way Humans Speak
The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...
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Humpback Whale Song Shares a Key Pattern With Human Language That Might Make It Easier for the Animals to Learn
Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...
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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Protecting the next generation of whales
Benefits that whales bring extend far beyond the ocean – they help us, humans, too. Coastal communities around the world rely ...
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 ...
California loves Dungeness crab. But concerns over whale safety have put the industry in peril
California's Dungeness crab industry is under increasing regulation because of concerns over whales getting entangled in ...
A pair of whales are making a baffling journey along the US Gulf Coast
Koala and Curlew, two endangered female North Atlantic right whales have gone off course, perplexing researchers.
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Only 50 Rice’s Whales Are Left. Can We Do Enough to Protect Them Before It’s Too Late?
Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...