The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...

Prior research has shown that humpback whales use sounds for a wide variety of purposes, including communication with others of their kind, mating signals and sensory perception. Humpback whale ...

Humpback whale songs have ... Using the alphanumeric versions of the whale songs, the team calculated the transitional probabilities between consecutive sound elements, making a cut when the ...

"They are one of the most common signals within the humpback whale social sound repertoire," Fred Sharpe, co-author and principal investigator with the Alaska Whale Foundation, told Business Insider.

The advisory follows a recent incident on January 6, when a humpback whale was reported entangled in crab gear, and comes after a record high of four whale entanglements in Oregon crab gear in 2024.

Today’s legal notice points out that the West Coast fishery — which has recently targeted Pacific bluefin tuna — operates without Endangered Species Act authorization to harm or kill humpback whales.

An entangled and “exhausted” humpback whale was recently rescued off the coast of the United Kingdom, video footage shows. Photo from Silas Baisch, UnSplash An entangled humpback whale was ...