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

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

Peer-reviewed research by Hebrew University and Edinburgh University experts suggests such patterns might also shape sounds ...

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

Benefits that whales bring extend far beyond the ocean – they help us, humans, too. Coastal communities around the world rely ...

Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and ...

All known human languages display a pattern known as Zipf’s law. Now, researchers have found the same pattern in whale song.

For all the world’s linguistic diversity, human languages still obey some universal patterns. These run even deeper than ...

A key discovery was that whale song follows Zipf’s Law—a principle in human language where the most frequently used words appear roughly twice as often as the second-most common words, three times as ...

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

Whale song and human language share the same structure according to a breakthrough study by an international team of marine ...