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Singing in tune
BBC Wildlife
|September 2022
Study reveals humpback whales can accurately learn a song from a different humpback population
HUMPBACK WHALES ARE SUPERB SINGERS, H with complex vocal performances that last for tens of minutes, often repeated for many hours. An album of their songs gained worldwide fame in the 1970s and is still the best-selling recording of nature sounds ever made.
This story is from the September 2022 edition of BBC Wildlife.
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