Human babies rely on a strategy called “statistical learning” to identify certain words and patterns as they get exposed to ...

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

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

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

A new study reveals that whale song and human languages share features that make them easier to learn. Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are known for their complex songs. New research ...

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

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

Avoiding predators is one of the most important jobs for many members of the animal world. Even ocean giants like baleen whales have something to fear from killer whales, their only known natural ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three ...

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new study suggests. By Emily Anthes The English language is full of wond ...

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

In new research published today in Science, our team of experts in whale song, linguistics and developmental psychology analysed eight years’ of song recordings from humpback whales in New ...