BUFFALO, N.Y. – Eduardo Mercado III, PhD, a University at Buffalo professor of psychology and a groundbreaking expert on whale song, wasn’t impressed as a young researcher in the 1990s when he first ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Male humpback whales are part of competition pods that show off their physicality to win a mate. Humpback whales are singing ...

In Why Whales Sing, cognitive scientist Dr. Eduardo Mercado III challenges decades of scientific research into the purpose behind humpback whale song, in which the prevailing view is that it is a ...

Any way you slice it, whales are fascinating animals. They vary greatly in size and behavior, have rich and deep cognitive and emotional lives, and many can communicate and negotiate their social and ...