ArticleRoyal Society open science2020
Migratory insights from singing humpback whales recorded around central New Zealand.
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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
- BASSA: New software tool reveals hidden details in visualisation of low-frequency animal sounds.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Spatial connectivity of reef manta rays across the Raja Ampat archipelago, Indonesia.Royal Society open science · 2024Article
- Humpback whale song revolutions continue to spread from the central into the eastern South Pacific.Royal Society open science · 2022Article
- Song complexity is maintained during inter-population cultural transmission of humpback whale songs.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- All units are equal in humpback whale songs, but some are more equal than others.Animal cognition · 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
- Marine soundscape variation reveals insights into baleen whales and their environment: a case study in central New Zealand.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
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Abstract
The migration routes of wide-ranging species can be difficult to study, particularly at sea. In the western South Pacific, migratory routes of humpback whales between breeding and feeding areas are unclear. Male humpback whales sing a population-specific song, which can be used to match singers on migration to a breeding population. To investigate migratory routes and breeding area connections, passive acoustic recorders were deployed in the central New Zealand migratory corridor (2016); recorded humpback whale song was compared to song from the closest breeding populations of East Australia and New Caledonia (2015-2017). Singing northbound whales migrated past New Zealand from June to August via the east coast of the South Island and Cook Strait. Few song detections were made along the east coast of the North Island. New Zealand song matched New Caledonia song, suggesting a migratory destination, but connectivity to East Australia could not be ruled out. Two song types were present in New Zealand, illustrating the potential for easterly song transmission from East Australia to New Caledonia in this shared migratory corridor. This study enhances our understanding of western South Pacific humpback whale breeding population connectivity, and provides novel insights into the dynamic transmission of song culture.
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