These unearthly whale songs helped save humpbacks from extinction

Once at risk of being wiped out, humpback whales charted a remarkable comeback thanks to their songs. In 1979, National ...
American Institute of Physics

Every year, blue whales sing lower

Listening to a blue whale population in Aotearoa New Zealand revealed how their songs change frequency over time.
Medicine Buffalo

What’s really happening when whales sing? It’s not what established science claims ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Eduardo Mercado III, PhD, a University at Buffalo professor of psychology and a groundbreaking expert on whale song, wasn’t impressed as a young researcher in the 1990s when he first ...
Modesto Bee

How do whales avoid being detected by orcas? Their singing plays a role, study finds

Some whale species evade killer whales by singing at deep frequencies that are “completely undetectable” to the predators, according to a new study. Photo from John Towner, UnSplash Some baleen whale ...