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

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

Imagine a species with fewer individuals than seats on a school bus. Now imagine that each weighs more than the bus itself. That’s Rice’s whale, the only resident baleen whale in the Gulf of ...

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

Whale song more similar to human language than previously thought – study - Research has revealed a previously undetected ...