Some species of baleen whales may avoid attracting killer whales by singing too low to be heard
Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...
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 song shows 'hallmarks' of human language
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 ...
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Humpback Whale Song Shares a Key Pattern With Human Language That Might Make It Easier for the Animals to Learn
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 ...
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Whale song has remarkable similarities to human speech in terms of efficiency
Whale song can be as efficient as – and, in some cases, more efficient than – human communication, according to a new study in Science Advances. Meanwhile, new unrelated research in Science further ...
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Some species of baleen whales avoid attracting killer whales by singing too low to be heard
New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...