Voices in the ocean

Science. 2023 Mar 3;379(6635):881-882. doi: 10.1126/science.adg5256. Epub 2023 Mar 2.

Andrea Ravignani^{1

2}, Christian T Herbst^{3

4

5}

¹ Comparative Bioacoustics Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
² Center for Music in the Brain, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University and The Royal Academy of Music Aarhus/Aalborg, Aarhus, Denmark.
³ Department of Behavioural and Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
⁴ Department of Vocal Studies, Mozarteum University Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria.
⁵ Janette Ogg Voice Research Center, Shenandoah Conservatory, Winchester, VA, USA.

Abstract

Toothed whales evolved a third way of making sounds similar to that of land mammals and birds.