However, research published in Science has uncovered the same statistical structure that is a hallmark of human language in humpback whale song. Humpback whale song is a striking example of a ...

Humpback whale songs are among the most sophisticated in the animal kingdom and an outstanding example of non-human culture. Now, researchers have demonstrated that these vocal sequences exhibit ...

Humpback whale song is a striking example of a complex, culturally transmitted behavior, but up to now, there was little evidence it has language-like structure. Human language, which is also ...

We discovered that the same Zipfian pattern universally found across human languages also occurs in whale song. This complex signalling system, like human language, is culturally learned by each ...

Human languages display a pattern known as Zipf’s law. 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 groundbreaking study, published in Science, has unearthed surprising parallels between human languages and whale songs, specifically their shared adherence to Zipf's law. The research, led by ...

But a groundbreaking new study has uncovered something even more astonishing—these marine giants may structure their songs in a way that mirrors human language. Researchers analysing years of whale ...

Research has revealed a previously undetected ‘language-like structure’ in whale song that was thought to be unique to human language. Whale song is more similar to human language than ...

First, the researchers had to identify the units within the song that would be equivalent to human words. To achieve this, they were inspired by the way babies learn language. “Speech is ...

For years, experts questioned whether whales used anything resembling human language. That has changed, with this study reporting that whale songs contain recurring elements similar to those in spoken ...