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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
DOI 10.1016/j.cub.2011.03.019
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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
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
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FWCI
9.00
Type
journal article
Language
en
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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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