Whale songs are far removed from the singing that humans are used to. Unlike our musical sounds, those produced by whales are a complex range of vocalisations that include groans, clicks and whistles ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. – Eduardo Mercado III, PhD, a University at Buffalo professor of psychology and a groundbreaking expert on whale song, wasn’t impressed as a young researcher in the 1990s when he first ...

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 ...

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 ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales — those that have “baleen” in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales, baleen whales ...