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Humpback whales learn songs in segments – like the verses of a human song – and can remix them, a new study involving University of Queensland research has found.
The study featured data from Associate Professor Michael Noad of the UQ School of Veterinary Science's Cetacean Ecology and Acoustics Laboratory (CEAL).
Research indicated that whale songs appeared to be learnt a similar way to how humans acquire language skills, or a bird learns its warble.
"All the males in a population sing the same complex song, but the pattern of song changes with time, sometimes quite rapidly, across the population," Dr Noad said.
"Learning new songs is a form of what's known as 'social learning', which is where individual animals learn behaviours from each other rather than having them passed on from one generation to another genetically.
"Although we know that whales change their songs over time, we don't know about how they learn the new songs.
"The rate of change though shows that they are constantly learning and updating their songs rapidly."
Yes, whales sing, but they only sing ska...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 26 2017, @05:13AM (3 children)
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(Score: 4, Informative) by aristarchus on Wednesday July 26 2017, @05:21AM (2 children)
Even I, who have been on this planet for 2400 years (almost), have standards. Now why have not the eds seen fit to post my Ann Coulter submission? What are they trying to hide? OK, that one is just schlok as well. Butthurt is an actual user, you know. You should ask him. This could be the start of a beautiful friendship! Round up the usual suspects and play it again, Sam! Or, straighten up and fly right, SoylentNews. The eds are are only hope, since Obi Wan Mutant Bussthard cannot save us!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 26 2017, @02:04PM
Ann Coulter is magnificent. She always makes a complete and utter imbecile of herself in public whenever they interview here on the British TV news. Jon Snow on Channel 4 had a particularly good go at her a while back and she readily obliged.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @12:22AM
Oh, wow, Aristarchus being a presumptuous cockbite again.
Dude, why can't you figure out that some of us don't want you to bite our cocks?