A mysterious whale that has puzzled scientists for decades may not be an anomaly, but a clue to what climate change is doing ...

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The song was recorded by the researchers ... way into the footage, the singing whale even makes a brief appearance, seemingly ...

Blue Whale songs consist of an A call, a series of pulses, followed by a long, low moan called the B call. This A-B sequence is repeated over and over again, approximately once every 130 seconds.

The hydrophone was to detect blue whale voices. The simple song of the blue whale bull—the thumping, stentorian, basso profundo pulse of the A call, followed by the continuous tone of the B call ...

Blue whales — the planet’s largest ... their silence signals trouble. A whale has no energy for song “if it’s harder to gather the food resources it needs to sustain a body that can ...

But why do whales sing? “The short answer is, we don’t know,” says Alison Stimpert, a bioacoustician at Moss Landing Marine Laboratories in California. Humpback songs are only performed by males and ...

The difference between the two types of song does not appear to be random ... in higher numbers in shallow water. File photo of a blue whale off the coast of Bandon, Oregon.