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Humpback Whale Song Follows Zipf’s Law, A Fundamental Law Of Human Language
Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...
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Humpback Whale Song Shares a Key Pattern With Human Language That Might Make It Easier for the Animals to Learn
The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common ...
Humpback whales sing the way humans speak
But these are special occasion words, sprinkled sparingly into writing and conversation. The words in heaviest rotation are ...
What the science of baby-speak can tell us about whale songs
Just like popular songs on TikTok, new humpback whale songs can rapidly spread across regions and populations to replace ...
Whale’s tail was ‘anchored’ by rope off Scotland. Then local fishermen come to rescue
Two local fishermen recently rescued a humpback whale that had become entangled in rope off the United Kingdom. The pair were ...