These revealed how a specific song pattern, which originated in Eastern Australia, had passed “like Chinese whispers” to whale populations up to 6,000km away in French Polynesia.
The findings are reported in the journal Current Biology.
The research team, led by Ellen Garland from the University of Queensland, say the findings show the animals transmit such “cultural trends” over huge distances.
“Within a population, all males sing the same song,” Ms Garland explained. “But that song is constantly changing. So we wanted to look at the dynamics of songs throughout an ocean basin.”
To do this, she and her colleagues studied recordings of 775 humpback whale songs, taken by scientists from the South Pacific Whale Research Consortium.
“Lots of different sounds make up each song,” Ms Garland explained.
“There are low frequency moans, groans and growls then higher cries and shrieks and all variations of ascents and descents.”
- Humpback whale song spreads to other whales, BBC.co.uk, April 14, 2011.
3. For several months the talks of a real life romance between Simbu and Hansika emerged as only Chinese whispers. The two were first seen hand in hand at private parties, later Simbu gave Hansika a special invitation to be a guest at his newly built home in the city and most recently Simbu’s dad, T. Rajendar had openly stated that he is happy with Hansika as his future daughter-in-law.
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