Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.
Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...
Human babies rely on a strategy called “statistical learning” to identify certain words and patterns as they get exposed to ...
as reported by New Scientist. The researchers found that the frequency distribution of these subsequences in whale songs closely followed a pattern known as Zipf's law—a hallmark of human language.
Whale song is more similar to human language ... was conducted by linguists, developmental scientists, marine biologists and behavioural ecologists from the University of St Andrews, University ...
New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...
These deep singers in the “flight” club include blue, fin, sei, Bryde’s and minke whales. Meanwhile, their higher-frequency singing brethren that fight back when attacked also tend to be ...