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

A study finds that whale songs are similar to human speech patterns after breaking down the sound lengths and frequencies ...

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

Human babies rely on a strategy called “statistical learning” to identify certain words and patterns as they get exposed to ...

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

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

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...

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

WELLINGTON, Feb. 7 (Xinhua) -- International scientists have found that whale noises and songs share the same structure with human language. The scientists analyzed the groans, moans, whistles, barks, ...

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

Language has long been considered a uniquely human trait, with features that mark it out as distinct from the communication ...