Two new studies have found eerily human-like sophistication in whale songs, challenging notions about our exceptionality and ...
Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication ...
In the early 1970s, engineers listening for Russian submarines started detecting strange underwater signals. Using ...
A key discovery was that whale song follows Zipf’s Law—a principle in human language where the most frequently used words ...
Research has revealed a previously undetected ‘language-like structure’ in whale song that was thought to be unique to human language.