Whalesong: Exploring the Mystery of Whale Songs
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* Subject: Eduardo Mercado III,a University at Buffalo professor of psychology and cognitive scientist.
* Expertise: Whale song,auditory scene analysis.
* Affiliation: University at Buffalo, Guggenheim Foundation Fellow (2023).
* main Argument: Whales sing not to attract mates (reproductive hypothesis), but to explore their environment using sound as a form of sonar (sonar hypothesis). They are “seeing” with song.
* Book: *Why Whales Sing? (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2025, release date November 4).
* Challenge to existing Science: Mercado’s research challenges over 50 years of established science on whale song.
* Analogy: Singing humpback whales are like “submerged megaspiders laying out.”
* Licensing: The article itself is shareable under the Attribution 4.0 International license.
* Link to Professor’s Page: https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/psychology/faculty/faculty-directory/mercado.html
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