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Migratory convergence facilitates cultural transmission of humpback whale song. [PDF]

open access: yesR Soc Open Sci, 2019
Owen C   +10 more
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Humpback whale sonar

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1996
During the winter months male humpback whales produce long complex sequences of sounds which have been described as song. Current hypotheses for the function of humpback whale song speculate that it serves primarily to provide other whales with information about the singer such as location and reproductive fitness.
Eduardo Mercado   +2 more
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Information entropy of humpback whale song

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 1999
Many theories of nonhuman animal communication posit a first-order Markov model in which the next signal depends only on the current one. Such a model precludes a hierarchical structure to the communication signal. Information theory and signal processing provide quantitative techniques to estimate the underlying complexity of an arbitrary signal or ...
Ryuji, Suzuki   +2 more
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Songs of Humpback Whales

Science, 1971
1) Humpback whales ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) produce a series of beautiful and varied sounds for a period of 7 to 30 minutes and then repeat the same series with considerable precision. We call such a performance "singing" and each repeated series of sounds a "song." 2) All prolonged sound ...
Roger S. Payne, Scott McVay
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Acoustic properties of humpback whale songs

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2006
A vertical array of five hydrophones was used to measure the acoustic field in the vertical plane of singing humpback whales. Once a singer was located, two swimmers with snorkel gear were deployed to determine the orientation of the whale and position the boat so that the array could be deployed in front of the whale at a minimum standoff distance of ...
Whitlow W L, Au   +5 more
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Sound production by singing humpback whales

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2010
Sounds from humpback whale songs were analyzed to evaluate possible mechanisms of sound production. Song sounds fell along a continuum with trains of discrete pulses at one end and continuous tonal signals at the other. This graded vocal repertoire is comparable to that seen in false killer whales [Murray et al. (1998). J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
Eduardo, Mercado   +3 more
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