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

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

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

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

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

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

A key discovery was that whale song follows Zipf’s Law—a principle in human language where the most frequently used words ...

Whale song, though technically not a language, is organized in a familiar pattern.

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 ...

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

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...