Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales, baleen whales face ...

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

WELLINGTON, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- International scientists have found that whale noises and songs share the same structure with human language. The scientists analyzed the groans, moans, whistles, barks, ...

This suggests that, like humans, whale song is transmitted “culturally”, meaning that whales learn their communication systems from each other. Researchers used methods inspir ...

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Humpback whale – credit Operation CetacesLanguage has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it ...

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Most of us are familiar with whale song, but new research suggests that the structure of the song - the individual parts that make up the whole - has similarities to human language.