Humpback whale song revolutions continue to spread from the central into the eastern South Pacific
Funding: COCIBA grants of USFQ National Geographic Society - W396-15; NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit - NE/R015007/1; Project CETACEA Ecuador Royal Society - NF140667, UF160081; Rufford Foundation. Cultural transmission of behaviour is an important aspect of many animal communities ranging from humans...
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ftstandrewserep:oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/25926 2023-07-02T03:32:32+02:00 Humpback whale song revolutions continue to spread from the central into the eastern South Pacific Schulze, Josephine N. Denkinger, Judith Oña, Javier Poole, Michael Garland, Ellen Clare NERC The Royal Society University of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversity University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution University of St Andrews. Sea Mammal Research Unit University of St Andrews. School of Biology 2022-09-01T10:30:15Z 15 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25926 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220158 eng eng Royal Society Open Science Schulze , J N , Denkinger , J , Oña , J , Poole , M & Garland , E C 2022 , ' Humpback whale song revolutions continue to spread from the central into the eastern South Pacific ' , Royal Society Open Science , vol. 9 , no. 8 , 220158 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220158 2054-5703 PURE: 280602971 PURE UUID: 0ca6ebcc-d89c-46fe-98ca-2c49e201fbbd ORCID: /0000-0002-8240-1267/work/118411928 WOS: 000848127000010 Scopus: 85138580711 http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25926 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220158 NE/R015007/1 NF140667 UF160081 Copyright © 2022 The Authors. Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited. Cultural evolution Vocal learning Humpback whale Cultural transmission South Pacific Song GC Oceanography QH301 Biology DAS GC QH301 Journal article 2022 ftstandrewserep https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220158 2023-06-13T18:27:11Z Funding: COCIBA grants of USFQ National Geographic Society - W396-15; NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit - NE/R015007/1; Project CETACEA Ecuador Royal Society - NF140667, UF160081; Rufford Foundation. Cultural transmission of behaviour is an important aspect of many animal communities ranging from humans to birds. Male humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) sing a repetitive, stereotyped, socially learnt and culturally transmitted song display that slowly evolves each year. Most males within a population sing the same, slow-evolving song type; but in the South Pacific, song ‘revolutions’ have led to rapid and complete replacement of one song type by another introduced from a neighbouring population. Songs spread eastwards, from eastern Australia to French Polynesia, but the easterly extent of this transmission was unknown. Here, we investigated whether song revolutions continue to spread from the central (French Polynesia) into the eastern (Ecuador) South Pacific region. Similarity analyses using three consecutive years of song data (2016–2018) revealed that song themes recorded in 2016–2018 French Polynesian song matched song themes sung in 2018 Ecuadorian song, suggesting continued easterly transmission of song to Ecuador, and vocal connectivity across the entire South Pacific Ocean basin. This study demonstrates songs first identified in western populations can be transmitted across the entire South Pacific, supporting the potential for a circumpolar Southern Hemisphere cultural transmission of song and a vocal culture rivalled in its extent only by our own. Publisher PDF Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Humpback Whale Megaptera novaeangliae University of St Andrews: Digital Research Repository Pacific Royal Society Open Science 9 8 |
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Cultural evolution Vocal learning Humpback whale Cultural transmission South Pacific Song GC Oceanography QH301 Biology DAS GC QH301 Schulze, Josephine N. Denkinger, Judith Oña, Javier Poole, Michael Garland, Ellen Clare Humpback whale song revolutions continue to spread from the central into the eastern South Pacific |
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Funding: COCIBA grants of USFQ National Geographic Society - W396-15; NERC Sea Mammal Research Unit - NE/R015007/1; Project CETACEA Ecuador Royal Society - NF140667, UF160081; Rufford Foundation. Cultural transmission of behaviour is an important aspect of many animal communities ranging from humans to birds. Male humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) sing a repetitive, stereotyped, socially learnt and culturally transmitted song display that slowly evolves each year. Most males within a population sing the same, slow-evolving song type; but in the South Pacific, song ‘revolutions’ have led to rapid and complete replacement of one song type by another introduced from a neighbouring population. Songs spread eastwards, from eastern Australia to French Polynesia, but the easterly extent of this transmission was unknown. Here, we investigated whether song revolutions continue to spread from the central (French Polynesia) into the eastern (Ecuador) South Pacific region. Similarity analyses using three consecutive years of song data (2016–2018) revealed that song themes recorded in 2016–2018 French Polynesian song matched song themes sung in 2018 Ecuadorian song, suggesting continued easterly transmission of song to Ecuador, and vocal connectivity across the entire South Pacific Ocean basin. This study demonstrates songs first identified in western populations can be transmitted across the entire South Pacific, supporting the potential for a circumpolar Southern Hemisphere cultural transmission of song and a vocal culture rivalled in its extent only by our own. Publisher PDF Peer reviewed |
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NERC The Royal Society University of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversity University of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolution University of St Andrews. Sea Mammal Research Unit University of St Andrews. School of Biology |
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Humpback whale song revolutions continue to spread from the central into the eastern South Pacific |
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Humpback whale song revolutions continue to spread from the central into the eastern South Pacific |
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Humpback whale song revolutions continue to spread from the central into the eastern South Pacific |
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Humpback whale song revolutions continue to spread from the central into the eastern South Pacific |
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Humpback whale song revolutions continue to spread from the central into the eastern South Pacific |
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humpback whale song revolutions continue to spread from the central into the eastern south pacific |
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Royal Society Open Science Schulze , J N , Denkinger , J , Oña , J , Poole , M & Garland , E C 2022 , ' Humpback whale song revolutions continue to spread from the central into the eastern South Pacific ' , Royal Society Open Science , vol. 9 , no. 8 , 220158 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220158 2054-5703 PURE: 280602971 PURE UUID: 0ca6ebcc-d89c-46fe-98ca-2c49e201fbbd ORCID: /0000-0002-8240-1267/work/118411928 WOS: 000848127000010 Scopus: 85138580711 http://hdl.handle.net/10023/25926 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220158 NE/R015007/1 NF140667 UF160081 |
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