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

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The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be ...

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This statistical rule is called Zipf’s law, and now, an interdisciplinary team of scientists has revealed that humpback whale songs follow the same pattern. In a study published Thursday in the ...

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Researchers identified statistically coherent patterns in whale song that may be a signature of cultural learning.

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