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Dynamic Horizontal Cultural Transmission of Humpback Whale Song at the Ocean Basin Scale

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Garland, Ellen C., Goldizen, Anne W., Rekdahl, Melinda L., Constantine, Rochelle, Garrigue, Claire, Hauser, Nan Daeschler, Poole, M. Michael, Robbins, Jooke, Noad, Michael J.·2011·Current Biology

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Cultural transmission, the social learning of information or behaviors from conspecifics, is believed to occur in a number of groups of animals, including primates, cetaceans, and birds. Cultural traits can be passed vertically (from parents to offspring), obliquely (from the previous generation via a nonparent model to younger individuals), or horizontally (between unrelated individuals from similar age classes or within generations). Male humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) have a highly stereotyped, repetitive, and progressively evolving vocal sexual display or "song" that functions in sexual selection (through mate attraction and/or male social sorting). All males within a population conform to the current version of the display (song type), and similarities may exist among the songs of populations within an ocean basin. Here we present a striking pattern of horizontal transmission: multiple song types spread rapidly and repeatedly in a unidirectional manner, like cultural ripples, eastward through the populations in the western and central South Pacific over an 11-year period. This is the first documentation of a repeated, dynamic cultural change occurring across multiple populations at such a large geographic scale.

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Authors: Garland, E. C., Goldizen, A. W., Rekdahl, M. L., Constantine, R., Garrigue, C., Hauser, N. D., Poole, M. M., Robbins, J., & Noad, M. J.
Affiliations: The University of Queensland (AU)
University of Auckland (NZ)
Center for Coastal Studies (US)
Corresponding author: Garland, Ellen C.
ORCID: Garland, Ellen C.
Goldizen, Anne W.
Rekdahl, Melinda L.
Constantine, Rochelle
Garrigue, Claire
Poole, M. Michael
Robbins, Jooke
Noad, Michael J.
Venue: Current Biology
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Published: 2011-04
Volume: 21
Issue: 8
Pages: 687-691
ISSN: 0960-9822 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2011.03.019
OpenAlex: W1997119063
Cited by: 321
References: 35
Citations by year: 2026: 18 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 27 · 2023: 31 · 2022: 28 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 22 · 2018: 39 · 2017: 23 · 2016: 17 · 2015: 19 · 2014: 9 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 9
FWCI: 9.00
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
doi.org
Licence: www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
www.elsevier.com/open-access/userlicense/1.0/ (vor, 874 d)
Locations: Current Biology (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
ResearchSpace (University of Auckland) (submittedVersion)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Ecology › Marine animal studies overview
Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
Keywords: humpback whale song, cultural transmission, horizontal transmission, social learning, sexual selection, mate attraction
MeSH terms: Animals, Imitative Behavior, Learning, Male, Pacific Ocean, Social Behavior, Sound Spectrography, Time Factors, Vocalization, Animal, Humpback Whale

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