Paris (AFP) — When male leopard seals dive down into icy Antarctic waters, they sing songs structured like nursery rhymes in performances that can last up to 13 hours, scientists said Thursday. The ...

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 ...

Typical behavior of leopard seal vocalizations—the male will sing a sequence of sounds underwater before returning to the surface to breathe (represented by a "Z") and repeats this cycle for hours at ...

Melodies of land and sea To understand how leopard seal songs compare to other species, Chambers and her co-authors looked at entropy—the measurement of how predictable or random a vocal sequence is.

The Australian-led team of researchers compared the complexity of the songs composed by the big blubbery mammals to those of other animals -- as well as human musicians like the Beatles and Mozart.

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 ...