The most outstanding characteristic of the humpback whale, as viewed by the majority of mankind, is its ability to vocalize in song.
All humpbacks can vocalize.
Females warn off or solicit new escorts, calves communicate with their mothers, but it is the male who produces a song as a solicitation to entrance the females into courtship. This bird like song structure ranges from the upper end to the near bottom of human hearing, organized, complex and wild. The sounds that they produce range from growls to chirps, moans and high, wistful, pure tones with an endless cycle of hours or even days. The waters of the Antilles are harmoniously alive with the songs of the humpback whale during the mating and calving season. All rights Reserved.