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

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

Two new studies have found that whale song has structural similarities to human languages, especially when it comes to ...

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

Just like popular songs on TikTok, new humpback whale songs can rapidly spread across regions and populations to replace ...

For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey some universal patterns. These run even deeper than ...

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

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

Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little ...

Researchers identified statistically coherent patterns in whale song that may be a signature of cultural learning.

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...

Human babies rely on a strategy called “statistical learning” to identify certain words and patterns as they get exposed to ...