The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common ...

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

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

Deep in the Pacific, humans have tracked a mysterious whale’s call for decades—but no other whale seems to respond. And now, we might be running out of time to find the source.

But what makes their complex vocalizations so catchy? Humpbacks songs each consist of sound elements that are combined into phrases that are then repeated to create the themes that together form ...

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

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication of all other species. However, research published in Science has uncovered ...

This statistical rule is called Zipf’s law, and now, an interdisciplinary team of scientists has revealed that humpback whale songs follow ... Specifically, sounds are more likely to occur ...

Research has revealed a previously undetected ‘language-like structure’ in whale song that was thought to be unique to human ...