Animals may not have musical instruments, but the way that some species form complex patterns of vocal sequences is remarkable. A recent study has found that Antarctic leopard seal. mating call ...

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Male leopard seals call out for hours on end during the breeding season, using five sounds to compose unique “songs.” Researchers analyzed the underwater vocalizations of male leopard seals in the ...

"When we compared their songs to other studies of vocal animals and of human music, we found their information entropy—a measure of how predictable or random a sequence is—was remarkably close to our ...

A comparison of the structure of leopard seal songs to those of other mammals and various forms of human music has found the closest counterpart to be nursery rhymes. Unsurprisingly, however, the ...

Male leopard seals in Antarctica sing underwater “songs” that are surprisingly similar to human nursery rhymes. A recent study found that these songs are highly structured and repetitive, with a ...

In a study published today, UNSW Sydney researchers found that the underwater songs of leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx) in Antarctica share structural similarities with the nursery rhymes often sung ...