Two new studies have found eerily human-like sophistication in whale songs, challenging notions about our exceptionality and ...

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication ...

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

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...

"Using insights and methods from how babies learn language allowed us to discover previously undetected structure in whale ...

Just like popular songs on TikTok, new humpback whale songs can rapidly spread across regions and populations to replace ...

How to search for the pattern in humpback whale song, however ... separated by tens of millions of years of evolution.” Why would two species both develop communication that follows Zipf ...

The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be because of how they are learned ...

Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little ...

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

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