INTERACTIONS OF SINGING HUMPBACK WHALES WITH OTHER MALES

By J. Darling, M. Bérubé. 2001

141 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Oceanography

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In Developmental Biology

1. Gerald Wilkinson
2. Meagan E. Jones
3. Charles P. Nicklin
4. J. Darling
5. John A. Hildebrand
6. S. Mesnick
7. Angeliki Lazaridou

In Ecology

1. Gerald Wilkinson
2. Meagan E. Jones
3. Charles P. Nicklin
4. Christopher W. Clark
5. J. Darling
6. John A. Hildebrand
7. S. Mesnick

In Oceanography

1. Meagan E. Jones
2. Charles P. Nicklin
3. Christopher W. Clark
4. J. Darling
5. John A. Hildebrand

Citations in the corpus

• Behavioral context of call production by eastern North Pacific blue whales (2007, unknown): “The precise function of humpback song is still unknown (Payne & McVay 1971, Tyack 1981, Clapham 1996); however, it may function to mediate interactions between males (Tyack 1981, Darling 1983, Darling & Berube 2001) or to advertise species, 278 Fig.”
• Humpback whale song occurs extensively on feeding grounds in the western North Atlantic Ocean (2012, background): “The predominant explanations include the purposes of mating, serving to attract prospective female mates and/or establish dominance among males (Tyack 1981, Darling & Berube 2001).”
• Biogeographic characterisation of blue whale song worldwide: using song to identify populations (2023, background): “Regarding mysticete song specifically, in species such as humpback and fin whales, the evidence to date indicates that only males sing (Watkins, 1981; Darling and Berube, 2001; Croll et al., 2002).”
• Humpback whale songs: Do they organize males during the breeding season? (2006, methodology): “One account from Hawaii, where a singer became the nucleus of a trio of non-agonistic males before joining a competitive group enmasse, raised the possibility of a relationship between this coordinated male-male behaviour and the song (Darling & Berube, 2001).”
• Songs of male humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, are involved in intersexual interactions (2008, unknown): “…that have concentrated on behavioural aspects of individual singers have shown that, although singing whales are usually lone individuals, song seems to be important in interactions between conspecifics (Tyack 1981; Frankel et al. 1995; Darling & Bérubé 2001; Noad 2002; Darling et al. 2006).”
• Progress in the Simulation of Emergent Communication and Language (2003, background): “…calls (Robinson, 1994; Zuberbuhler, 2002), and sac-winged bats (Davidson & Wilkinson, 2002) and humpback whales (Cerchio, Jacobsen, & Norris, 2001; Darling & Berube, 2001) that produce songs with recurring notes, although it is not clear if different orderings of these notes have any significance…”