Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little ...
Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication ...
JERUSALEM — An international study, led by Israeli and British researchers, has found that whale song has a structure similar ...
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 ...
Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and ...
Humpback whale songs share structural similarities with human language, suggesting complex communication patterns.
Research has revealed a previously undetected ‘language-like structure’ in whale song that was thought to be unique to human ...
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 ...
Whale song, though technically not a language, is organized in a familiar pattern.
Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...