Humpback whale songs have statistical patterns in their structure that are remarkably similar to those seen in human language. While this doesn’t mean the songs convey complex meanings like our ...

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 ...

The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common ...

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 ...

The Rainy Day Quilt Guild will hold its annual “Quilting in the Rain” show on Saturday, Feb. 15 and Sunday, Feb. 16 at the ...