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This project explores the musical characteristics of humpback whales and gibbons to understand the evolutionary origins of music. By comparing their vocalizations to human music, it aims to identify features of musicality across species, using advanced acoustic analysis techniques.
Musicality can be defined as the biological and cognitive abilities necessary to appreciate and create music, which makes song production a significant marker of the trait in the human species.
In analogy, some acoustic behaviours of other species, whether birds, whales or primates, have also been traditionally termed songs.
However, to date the relatively few studies of parallels between human and animal songs have focused mainly on bird songs.
Broader cross-species comparison of animal songs w…
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