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 ...

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

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 reveals older singing male whales are increasingly successful at siring offspring compared to younger males.

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 ...

Blue whales sing less when they are starving and sing more when food is plentiful, a recent study revealed. Researchers listened to whales off California for six years and found that their singing ...

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 ...

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 ...

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