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

All known human languages display a pattern known as Zipf’s law. Now, researchers have found the same pattern in whale song.

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication ...

Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and ...

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

Most of us are familiar with whale song, but new research suggests that the structure of the song - the individual parts that ...

Two new studies have found that whale song has structural similarities to human languages, especially when it comes to efficiency and brevity. It’s leading researchers to believe that evolutionary ...

The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...

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

The new study challenges the so far considered unique hallmark of the human way of communication. Humpback whale song follows ...

Sightings of humpback whales cruising the British coast are rising – and causing debate amongst conservationists researching the cause ...