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

Two new studies have found eerily human-like sophistication in whale songs, challenging notions about our exceptionality and ...

Twice a month a group of about 30 Iowa City residents gathered, not to perform but to participate in a time-honored tradition ...

Sophisticated birdsong follows strict grammatical rules, much like human sentences. But what happens when birds can't hear ...

Bob Dylan had an interesting attitude towards live music, so he was hard to impress when people covered his songs, but there were some he liked.

Just like ChatGPT and other generative language models train on human texts to create grammatically correct sentences, a new ...

JERUSALEM — An international study, led by Israeli and British researchers, has found that whale song has a structure similar ...

Whale song, though technically not a language, is organized in a familiar pattern.

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

"Using insights and methods from how babies learn language allowed us to discover previously undetected structure in whale ...

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

Two new studies have found that whale song has structural similarities to human languages, especially when it comes to ...