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

“Although we normally challenge our cockatoos by giving them a problem and then observing how they solve it, this time the cockatoos showed that they had discovered solutions to problems that we had ...

Research co-led by Hebrew University expert on language learning suggests such patterns might also shape sounds made by other ...

Researchers have discovered that humpback whales and humans have something fundamental in common: Their songs, like our ...

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

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

We had a particularly great week for new research findings, in my opinion. I mean, stories like a 2% improvement in a ...

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

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

Whale song can be as efficient as – and, in some cases, more efficient than – human communication, according to a new study in Science Advances ...