Whale song is something we humans listen to when relaxing ... These whales go through song “revolutions” with new songs being invented and then spread among whales across the Pacific Ocean.

Eerie and fascinating, whale songs are one of the most mysterious sounds reverberating through the ocean. Now, researachers say they know how the leviathans vocalize.

On the other hand, humpback whale song could be comparable to human music, which also lacks semantic meaning while still adhering to Zipf’s law. But that doesn’t make the study less exciting.

Humpback whale songs have statistical patterns in their structure that are remarkably similar to those seen in human language. While this doesn’t mean the songs convey complex meanings like our ...

Even at its most complex, however, whale song is not quite like language, says Youngblood, but perhaps more like human song, the elements of which also tend to occur at Zipfian frequencies ...

Whale songs have features of language, but whales may not be speaking ... In her opinion, playback experiments are a no-go unless there is confidence they would do no harm.

Whale songs can be both beautiful and haunting. But the exact mechanism that the 16 species of ... But there’s lots of mysteries out there. I talked to a colleague last week. And for example, a few of ...

Whales sense their surroundings largely through sound and create complex vocalizations, or songs, when they’re searching for mates and food. RELATED: 5 big whale festivals in Northern California ...

These whales go through song “revolutions” with new songs being invented and then spread among whales across the Pacific Ocean. The tunes tend to start out simpler and get more detailed as ...

Eerie and fascinating, whale songs are one of the most mysterious sounds reverberating through the ocean. Now, researchers say they know how the leviathans vocalize.