Humpback whale songs have statistical patterns in their structure that are remarkably similar to those seen in human language. While this doesn’t mean the songs convey complex meanings like our ...

This statistical rule is called Zipf’s law, and now, an interdisciplinary team of scientists has revealed that humpback whale songs follow the same pattern. In a study published Thursday in the ...

For years, experts questioned whether whales used anything resembling human language. That has changed, with this study reporting that whale songs contain recurring elements similar to those in spoken ...

We discovered that the same Zipfian pattern universally found across human languages also occurs in whale song. This complex signalling system, like human language, is culturally learned by each ...

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The pattern, which has also been documented in birds and nonhuman primates, may have evolved as a way to reduce the costs of communication. “Things like bird song and whale song are very hard to ...