Defining the appropriate scale over which to conduct a study in the marine environment is
critical to achieving appropriate scientific, management, mitigation and conservation …

Culture, defined as shared behavior or information within a community acquired through
some form of social learning from conspecifics, is now suggested to act as a second …

Humpback whales (M egaptera novaeangliae) are seasonal breeders, annually migrating
from high‐latitude summer feeding grounds to low‐latitude winter breeding grounds. The …

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) were listed as endangered in 1970 under the
Endangered Species Conservation Act of 1969, the precursor to the Endangered Species …

Fixed autonomous acoustic recording devices (autonomous recorders [ARs]) are defined as
any electronic recording system that acquires and stores acoustic data internally (ie, without …

Animals produce a wide array of sounds with highly variable acoustic structures. It is
possible to understand the causes and consequences of this variation across taxa with …

Consistent and well‐defined criteria for the classification and measurement of humpback
whale song features are essential for robust comparisons between investigators. Song …

Although humpback whales are among the best-studied of the large whales, population
boundaries in the Southern Hemisphere (SH) have remained largely untested. We assess …

Male humpback whales produce a long, complex, and stereotyped song on low-latitude
breeding grounds; they also sing while migrating to and from these locations, and …

Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are a cosmopolitan species and perform long
annual migrations between low-latitude breeding areas and high-latitude feeding areas …