How Humpback Whale Song Dialects Shift Over Decades and What Cultural Transmission Tells Us
The Song That Crosses an OceanIn 1998, marine biologist Michael Noad and his colleagues at the University of Queensland documented something that had no clean explanation at the time. Two humpback whales off the east coast of Australia were singing a song-type that belonged to the west coast population, a…
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