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

Blue whales are not just the largest animals alive today, but the largest animals to ever live on Earth. They can stretch ...

A mother humpback whale and calf are seen on the coast of Brazil in August 2023. Researchers say they've discovered that humpback whale song is passed ... bowhead, blue and fin whales — adhere ...

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 ...

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 ...

New research suggests male baleen whales looking for love sing a different tune when attracting a mate, and it all depends on ...

Two new studies this week focused on whale song and found striking, structural parallels to human language ... The research found some whales — including humpbacks, bowhead, blue and fin whales — ...

Whale song and human language share structural similarities, according to a breakthrough study by scientists who analysed years of humpback whale recordings from New Caledonia. An international ...