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The award-winning independent film, "A Song for Imogene", produced by local production company Honey Head Films, will receive worldwide distribution June 27 on Amazon Prime Video.
Researchers bring a SETI approach to the question of what—if anything—humpbacks’ underwater smoke rings might be trying to ...
The latest release in the humpback whale’s haunting sound collection is a track so unusual that scientists hardly know what to make of it. Unlike anything on the hit album Songs of the Humpback ...
Scientists analyzed whale songs recorded in the marine sanctuary between 2015 and 2021 A hungry whale is a quiet whale. A new first-of-its kind study found the marine mammals vocalized less after ...
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 ...
Whale song is something we humans listen to when relaxing – but new research has shown that, as a form of communication, it ain't messing around. A new study has found that certain whale species ...
Human languages display a pattern known as Zipf’s law. Now, researchers have found the same pattern in whale song. In all known human languages there is a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in ...
This statistical rule is called Zipf’s law, and now, an interdisciplinary team of scientists has revealed that humpback whale songs follow the same pattern. In a study published Thursday in the ...
The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new study suggests. By Emily Anthes The English language is full of wond ...
Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little evidence it has language-like structure. Human language, which is also ...
Now, if we return to sperm whales, we can ask what is the difference between their communication and a mockingbird song? I mean from the structural point of view, from the point of view of ...