In the competitive romance game, mature humpback whales are getting the females more often than their younger rivals because they know how to sing great love songs to them.

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

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 ...

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

Psychology professor Eduardo Mercado III wasn’t impressed as a young researcher in the 1990s when he first heard humpback whales singing. A groundbreaking expert on whale song, Mercado is a cognitive ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution have uncovered the oldest known recording of whale song. And it reveals a noisier soundscape of today's oceans.