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

Whale song can be as efficient as – and, in some cases, more efficient than – human communication, according to a new study in Science Advances ...

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

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

This pattern is known as iambic pentameter, but it just means that each line has five da-DUMs and the stress is always on the second syllable. It sounds like a beating heart, perhaps it works well ...