35 Types of Sound by Humpbacks Identified by Rebecca Dunlop et al.

Researcher Rebecca Dunlop and her associates are from the University of Queensland in Australia. They monitored Humpback whales migrating along the east coast of Australia from breeding grounds inside the Great Barrier Reef to feeding grounds in the Antarctic.

The article.

TODO read the actual research paper and determine what their classification criteria were, i.e., what is meant by a *type of sound*.

Update 2007.03.03: Here's another news article from 2006 on Ms. Dunlop's team impressive research. This web page has a link to online Humpback sounds.


Update 2007.03.03: "Humpback songs are not like human language, but elements of language are seen in their songs," said Ryuji Suzuki, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) predoctoral fellow in neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Here's a 2006 news article on his group's research. TODO read the original paper.

Update Jan. 2008: http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080109/CPSCIENCES/80109081/1020/CPSCIENCES