Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be investigated for this law due to data constraints. Humpbacks, famous for ...

TWO fishermen have rescued a humpback whale which was entangled in rope off the coast of Skye. The pair of creel fishermen were fishing in the southern area off the coast of the Scottish island when ...

In new research published in Science, our team of experts in whale song, linguistics and developmental psychology analysed eight years’ of song recordings from humpback whales in New Caledonia. Led by ...

“They go at it for hours, and even days,” says Dr. Natalia Botero-Acosta, a humpback whale expert at University of California Santa Cruz and a director of the Macuáticos Colombia Foundation. In this ...