Song complexity is maintained during inter-population cultural transmission of humpback whale songs
Funding: The American Australian Association and the Winifred Violet Scott Trust provided additional funding to J.A.A. for this study. E.C.G. is funded by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (grant no. UF160081). Among animal species, the songs of male humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangl...
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ftstandrewserep:oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/25473 2023-07-02T03:32:32+02:00 Song complexity is maintained during inter-population cultural transmission of humpback whale songs Allen, Jenny A. Garland, Ellen Clare Garrigue, Claire Dunlop, Rebecca A. Noad, Michael J. The Royal Society University of St Andrews. School of Biology University of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversity University of St Andrews. Sea Mammal Research Unit University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution 2022-05-31T16:30:10Z 9 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25473 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12784-3 eng eng Scientific Reports Allen , J A , Garland , E C , Garrigue , C , Dunlop , R A & Noad , M J 2022 , ' Song complexity is maintained during inter-population cultural transmission of humpback whale songs ' , Scientific Reports , vol. 12 , 8999 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12784-3 2045-2322 PURE: 279306256 PURE UUID: 7800cb0a-ce3f-4eb5-8c1a-b16e42c614e1 ORCID: /0000-0002-8240-1267/work/114023319 Scopus: 85130911387 WOS: 000805674000009 http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25473 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12784-3 UF160081 Copyright © The Author(s) 2022. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. GC Oceanography QL Zoology QH301 Biology DAS MCC GC QL QH301 Journal article 2022 ftstandrewserep https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12784-3 2023-06-13T18:28:52Z Funding: The American Australian Association and the Winifred Violet Scott Trust provided additional funding to J.A.A. for this study. E.C.G. is funded by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (grant no. UF160081). Among animal species, the songs of male humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are a rare example of social learning between entire populations. Understanding fine-scale similarity in song patterns and structural features will better clarify how accurately songs are learned during inter-population transmission. Here, six distinct song types (2009-2015) transmitted from the east Australian to New Caledonian populations were quantitatively analysed using fine-scale song features. Results found that New Caledonian whales learned each song type with high accuracy regardless of the pattern’s complexity. However, there were rare instances of themes (stereotyped patterns of sound units) only sung by a single population. These occurred more often in progressively changing ‘evolutionary’ songs compared to rapidly changing ‘revolutionary’ songs. Our results suggest that populations do not need to reduce complexity to accurately learn song patterns. Populations may also incorporate changes and embellishments into songs in the form of themes which are suggested to be learnt as distinct segments. Maintaining complex song patterns with such accuracy suggests significant acoustic contact, supporting the hypothesis that song learning may occur on shared feeding grounds or migration routes. This study improves the understanding of inter-population mechanisms for large-scale cultural transmission in animals. Publisher PDF Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Humpback Whale Megaptera novaeangliae University of St Andrews: Digital Research Repository Scientific Reports 12 1 |
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Funding: The American Australian Association and the Winifred Violet Scott Trust provided additional funding to J.A.A. for this study. E.C.G. is funded by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship (grant no. UF160081). Among animal species, the songs of male humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are a rare example of social learning between entire populations. Understanding fine-scale similarity in song patterns and structural features will better clarify how accurately songs are learned during inter-population transmission. Here, six distinct song types (2009-2015) transmitted from the east Australian to New Caledonian populations were quantitatively analysed using fine-scale song features. Results found that New Caledonian whales learned each song type with high accuracy regardless of the pattern’s complexity. However, there were rare instances of themes (stereotyped patterns of sound units) only sung by a single population. These occurred more often in progressively changing ‘evolutionary’ songs compared to rapidly changing ‘revolutionary’ songs. Our results suggest that populations do not need to reduce complexity to accurately learn song patterns. Populations may also incorporate changes and embellishments into songs in the form of themes which are suggested to be learnt as distinct segments. Maintaining complex song patterns with such accuracy suggests significant acoustic contact, supporting the hypothesis that song learning may occur on shared feeding grounds or migration routes. This study improves the understanding of inter-population mechanisms for large-scale cultural transmission in animals. Publisher PDF Peer reviewed |
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Song complexity is maintained during inter-population cultural transmission of humpback whale songs |
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Song complexity is maintained during inter-population cultural transmission of humpback whale songs |
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Song complexity is maintained during inter-population cultural transmission of humpback whale songs |
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Song complexity is maintained during inter-population cultural transmission of humpback whale songs |
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song complexity is maintained during inter-population cultural transmission of humpback whale songs |
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Scientific Reports Allen , J A , Garland , E C , Garrigue , C , Dunlop , R A & Noad , M J 2022 , ' Song complexity is maintained during inter-population cultural transmission of humpback whale songs ' , Scientific Reports , vol. 12 , 8999 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12784-3 2045-2322 PURE: 279306256 PURE UUID: 7800cb0a-ce3f-4eb5-8c1a-b16e42c614e1 ORCID: /0000-0002-8240-1267/work/114023319 Scopus: 85130911387 WOS: 000805674000009 http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25473 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12784-3 UF160081 |
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