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

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the ...

Humpback whale – credit Operation CetacesLanguage has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it ...

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

Whale song more similar to human language than previously thought – study - Research has revealed a previously undetected ...

Learn more about how baleen whales split into two groups — fight or flight — and how these groups determine how loud they sing.

A new study reveals that whale song and human languages share features that make them easier to learn. Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are known for their complex songs. New research ...

Humpback whale song is one of the most complex acoustic displays in the animal kingdom, a striking example of a socially ...

Incredibly, humpbacks may be using the same approach. When the researchers segmented whale songs based on these “transitional probabilities”—just as a human infant would—they fit Zipf’s ...