Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

Humpback whale songs share structural similarities with human language, suggesting complex communication patterns.

But these are special occasion words, sprinkled sparingly into writing and conversation. The words in heaviest rotation are ...

Whales use moans, snores, chirps and cries that are known as whale song. And now, a new study has found that whale song is ...

For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey some universal patterns. These run even deeper than ...

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The new study challenges the so far considered unique hallmark of the human way of communication. Humpback whale song follows ...

Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and ...

However, research published in Science has uncovered the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language in humpback whale song. Humpback whale song is a striking example of a ...

The research team, composed of linguists, developmental scientists, marine biologists, and behavioral ecologists, analyzed eight years of humpback whale song data collected in New Caledonia ...