The animals’ complex songs share structural patterns with human language that may make them easier for whales to learn, a new ...

The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common ...

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

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 ...

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

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication ...

Just like popular songs on TikTok, new humpback whale songs can rapidly spread across regions and populations to replace ...

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.

I only managed to get a good view after a month of tracking it. It’s been swimming around in the evening, creating chaos with ...

Language uses sentences, which are made up of a string of words, and those words are made up of a string of sounds. Applying this principle to eight years of humpback whale recordings from a New ...

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