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The humpback whales' song is probably the most complex in the animal kingdom. The range of frequencies that whales use are ...

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And while no other whale song has traveled so far ... There are plays and books about the whale and music videos that use it as inspiration. The whale makes a guest appearance in an episode ...

such as music, where individual units may not carry explicit meaning but still show the same statistical distribution. The researchers suggest that, much like human infants, humpback whales might ...

Humpbacks, famous for their song, came out on top as the species with the most language-like vocal efficiency, exhibiting both laws in their remarkable music. IFLScience · Whale song shows ...

Human languages display a pattern known as Zipf’s law. Now, researchers have found the same pattern in whale song. In all known human languages there is a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in ...

We analyzed the whale song data using the same procedure ... It might help to think about it like instrumental music, as music also contains similar structures. A melody can be learned, repeated ...

"Whale song is not a language; it lacks semantic meaning. It may be more reminiscent of human music, which also has this statistical structure, but lacks the expressive meaning found in language." ...

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.