Whales are known for their eerie undersea songs, but now experts say those melodic tones are far more complex than previously believed. Researchers were able to decipher hidden- language like ...

Whale song recording (2017) Operation Cetaces, 916 KB . Close analysis of whale song revealed statistical structures similar to those found in human language. Credit ...

Whale songs have features of language, ... Mockingbird songs “It’s funny how people always want to compare animal communication to language—it is sexy, and it helps to sell papers.

Humpback Whale Song Follows Zipf’s Law, A Fundamental Law Of Human Language And some whales exhibit Menzerath’s law even more strongly than humans. Rachael Funnell. Rachael Funnell.

Whale song can be as efficient as – and, in some cases, more efficient than – human communication, according to a new study in Science Advances. Meanwhile, new unrelated research in&nbsp ...

He saw the discovery of whale song as a chance to spur interest in saving the giant animals, who were disappearing from the planet. Payne would produce the album "Songs of the Humpback Whale" in 1970.

Whales share songs from Australia to Ecuador, scientists have found, suggesting a remarkably fast cultural evolution. By Carl Zimmer One of the most remarkable things about our species is how fast ...

Michael J. Noad of the University of Sydney and his colleagues eavesdropped on whales off southeast Queensland during migrations between 1995 and 1998, analyzing 1,057 hours of song.