Older male whales are more successful at mating than their younger rivals because they are better singers, suggests a new ...

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 ...

Humpback whales alter song pitch to avoid overlap with nearby singers, revealing flexible and responsive vocal behavior.

A hungry whale is a quiet whale. A new first-of-its kind study found the marine mammals vocalized less after a marine heat wave decimated their prey, making whale songs a barometer of the effects of ...

New research suggests male baleen whales looking for love sing a different tune when attracting a mate, and it all depends on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Male humpback whales are part of competition pods that show off their physicality to win a mate. Humpback whales are singing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Blue whales sing less when ...

A group of boaters off the coast of Maui, Hawaii stumbled upon a family of curious humpback whales. Listen to them sing as they circle around the boat. The whales wandered so close to the boat that ...

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 ...