Suitors in the 18th and 19th centuries often carved love tokens out of whatever material was at hand. According to the ...

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

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

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

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

This statistical rule is called Zipf’s law, and now, an interdisciplinary team of scientists has revealed that humpback whale songs follow the same pattern. In a study published Thursday in the ...

We discovered that the same Zipfian pattern universally found across human languages also occurs in whale song. This complex signalling system, like human language, is culturally learned by each ...

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

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication of all other species. However, research published in Science has uncovered ...