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Read on to discover why male humpback whales teach each other to sing in harmony…<\/strong><\/p> M\u00e4nnerch\u00f6re: the German tradition of male-voiced choirs in the 19th century that generated so much repertoire by Schubert<\/a><\/strong>, Mendelssohn<\/a><\/strong>, Brahms<\/a><\/strong>, Bruckner<\/a><\/strong> and all. Too little performed these days, these drinking songs and ripping yarns for male-voiced choruses are part of a long tradition of what happens when groups of blokes self-segregate and raise their voices about wine, women and song.<\/p> A remarkable analogy in the contemporary musical world for such expressions of M\u00e4nnerchor<\/em>-style togetherness is to be found not in concert halls or sporting stadiums, but deep in our oceans. I\u2019m not talking about Jules Verne-style assemblages of underwater singers burbling through their scuba gear. I mean male humpback whales, who get together at nodal points of their vast migration routes that gird the globe, meeting with one purpose: to sing.\u00a0<\/p> Singing: the ultimate acts of male bonding, for men… and whales<\/h3>