ArticleRoyal Society open science2019
Migratory convergence facilitates cultural transmission of humpback whale song.
Article in Royal Society open science, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
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- Humpback whale song complexity and evolution on a northwestern Pacific breeding ground: Okinawa, Japan.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Audible changes in marine trophic ecology: Baleen whale song tracks foraging conditions in the eastern North Pacific.PloS one · 2025Article
- Differences in the functional use of two migratory stopovers by humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae).PloS one · 2025Article
- Not your private tête-à-tête: leveraging the power of higher-order networks to study animal communication.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Humpback whale song revolutions continue to spread from the central into the eastern South Pacific.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Well-digging in a community of forest-living wild East African chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii).Primates; journal of primatology · 2022Article
- Song complexity is maintained during inter-population cultural transmission of humpback whale songs.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- When does cultural evolution become cumulative culture? A case study of humpback whale song.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- A short scan of Māori journeys to Antarctica.Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand · 2022Article
- Global cultural evolutionary model of humpback whale song.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- Tutors do not facilitate rapid resource exploitation in temporary tadpole aggregations.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Bidirectional Interactions With Humpback Whale Singer Using Concrete Sound Elements.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Migratory insights from singing humpback whales recorded around central New Zealand.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- Cultural Transmission, Evolution, and Revolution in Vocal Displays: Insights From Bird and Whale Song.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
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11 authors at 5 institutions in 6 countries.
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Abstract
Cultural transmission of behaviour is important in a wide variety of vertebrate taxa from birds to humans. Vocal traditions and vocal learning provide a strong foundation for studying culture and its transmission in both humans and cetaceans. Male humpback whales (
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