Sentences with phrase «male humpback»

In the Globe and Mail this morning, I learn that researchers have found that the songs of male humpback whales change from year to year and, indeed, propagate throughout the world community of humpbacks, rather in the way that pop tunes spread among human beings — or the way that negative advertising infects ever larger portions of the polity.

Last night, messages came in telling us about the deceased, juvenile male humpback that was to be cleaned today for the Whale Interpretive Centre, (WIC), in Telegraph Cove.

Last night, messages came in telling us about the deceased, juvenile male humpback that was to be cleaned today for the Whale Interpretive Centre, (WIC), -LSB-...]

During breeding season, which takes place over the winter months, groups of male humpback whales will display for potential mates by singing their famously haunting songs, breaching, and performing a host of other competitive displays that depend on speed, strength and size.

Music mania is sweeping the ocean, and all the young male humpback whales are in on the latest trend.

Both Gabriele and this male humpback have migrated to this...

These male humpbacks can make quite a display around other males in what is thought to be a way of letting the others know how large they are.

Male humpbacks produce a long series of calls that are normally heard during the winter breeding season.

Not exact matches

The tail markings reveal that it is the same humpback whale, which puzzles researchers because the over -6,000-mile trek is two times the typical seasonal journey of a whale, not to mention that it's a female; males whales are the ones who normally travel long distances.

Humpback whales singing in the Chukchi Sea through the fall — a male reproductive display previously thought to be confined to tropical breeding grounds.

Yet when biologist Peter Corkeron at James Cook University in Queensland and Miranda Brown at the University of Cape Town in South Africa surveyed humpbacks recently, the migratory groups turned out to be 75 percent male.

Our 3 1/2 hour tours offer the opportunity to venture into the wild and ignite all your senses: the salty taste of the ocean spray; the unmistakable smell of a humpback's breath; the blow of a whale; the shrill sound of the gulls and eagles; the squeaks, squeals and whistles of the killer whales vocalizing through the on board hydrophone or the soothing yet elaborate song of the humpback males.

This compares with humpback whales, with males at 40 - 48 feet and females at 45 - 50 feet.