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Whale Songs Follow the Same Mathematical Rule as Human Language
In the early 1970s, engineers listening for Russian submarines started detecting strange underwater signals. Using ...
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Pack-Ice Killer Whale Sounds — on Film
Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures, communicating through various vocalizations like pulsed calls and whistles. For the first time, researchers have recorded these vocalizations and ...
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Some whales sing low enough to be ‘acoustically invisible’ to predators, research suggests
New research finds male baleen whales looking for love sing a different tune when attracting a mate, and it all depends on if ...
Some species of baleen whales may avoid attracting killer whales by singing too low to be heard
Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...
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Whale songs share very similar patterns with human language
Humpback whale songs share structural similarities with human language, suggesting complex communication patterns.
Whale song patterns follow a universal law of human language
All known human languages display a pattern known as Zipf’s law. Now, researchers have found the same pattern in whale song.
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Whales communicate with a 'language-like' structure similar to humans
Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and ...
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Some species of baleen whales avoid attracting killer whales by singing too low to be heard
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 ...