For a long time, language has been viewed as a uniquely human trait, with features that set us apart from how other species ...

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

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

Now, researchers have found the same pattern in whale song. In all known human languages there is a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most ...

Whale song, though technically not a language, is organized in a familiar pattern.

Because a word that long is not what human language favours. According to experts, we tend toward efficiency and brevity — with statistical laws that persist across cultures. Perhaps now, even across ...

A new study has found that certain whale species' vocalizations adhere to two linguistic laws of efficiency seen in human language: Menzerath’s law and Zipf’s law (with Zipf's law being ...

Researchers say they've discovered that humpback whale song is passed down over the years and changes — something it has in common with human language. (Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images ...

The researchers analyzed eight years of humpback whale song data collected in New Caledonia, using methods inspired by how human infants learn language. "Using insights and methods from how babies ...

It was a whale of a surprise ... AP “It’s always a sign of hope to see a mother-calf pair of North Atlantic right whales and it’s really exciting to have them in New York waters.