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Whale vocalizations are the sounds made by whales to communicate. The word "song" is used in particular to describe the pattern of regular and predictable sounds made by some species of whales (notably the humpback and bowhead whales) in a way that is reminiscent of human singing. Humans produce sound by expelling air through the larynx.
Sounds of the Earth: Humpback Whales (Oreade Music) was released on CD in 1999. Rapture of the Deep: Humpback Whale Singing (Compass Recordings) was released on CD in 2001. Songlines: Songs of the East Australian Humpback whales. was released in 2009.
When the sounds were graphed they displayed a definite structure. [clarification needed] [8] Subsequent research by Payne and his then-wife Katharine Payne discovered that all male whales in a given ocean sing the same song. [8] Further, the whale songs change subtly from year to year, and never went back to previous songs. [9]
It is one of Earth's most haunting sounds - the "singing" of baleen whales like the humpback, heard over vast distances in the watery realm. Baleen whales - a group that includes the blue whale ...
He identified these sounds as whales singing to one another. [ 5 ] Payne's recordings were released in 1970 as an LP called Songs of the Humpback Whale (still the best-selling nature sound record of all time) [ 7 ] which helped to gain momentum for the Save the Whales movement seeking to end commercial whaling , which at the time was pushing ...
Scientists think they might have finally learned the secret to how whales sing their complicated songs. We knew whales made a vast array of vocalizations, called songs, that can carry for ...
Roger Payne, the scientist who spurred a worldwide environmental conservation movement with his discovery that whales could sing, has died. Payne made the discovery in 1967 during a research trip ...
English: Young humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) sings in the water of Vava'u islands, Tonga. Other languages Čeština: Mladý keporkak ( Megaptera novaeangliae ) "zpívá" ve vodách Tichého oceánu u soustroví Vava'u , stát Tonga .