Only male fin whales sing loud songs
- 1 June 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Nature
- Vol. 417 (6891), 809
- https://doi.org/10.1038/417809a
Abstract
The low-frequency vocalizations of fin and blue whales are the most powerful and ubiquitous biological sounds in the ocean1,2. Here we combine acoustic localization and molecular techniques to show that, in fin whales, only males produce these vocalizations. This finding indicates that they may function as male breeding displays, and will help to focus concern on the impact of human-generated low-frequency sounds on recovering whale populations.This publication has 11 references indexed in Scilit:
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