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

making whale songs a barometer of the effects of climate change on ocean ecosystems. The waters of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary off central California are rich feeding grounds for ...

Eavesdropping on whale songs has provided vital new information in the battle to protect the endangered species. Variations in detected whale songs are linked with shifting food sources for the ...

and a new study suggests some whale species announce an abundance of food with songs — but when food supply drops, so do the songs. They used recordings from underwater microphones called ...

“Analyzing baleen whale songs has revealed year-to-year variations that reflect changes in the availability of the species they forage on,” John Ryan, an oceanographer at the Monterey Bay ...

Whale song and human speech are very similar Seven months after being born and already over 16 meters long, the calves are weaned and stop associating with their mothers. “Blue whales produce ...