Two new studies have found eerily human-like sophistication in whale songs, challenging notions about our exceptionality and ...

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

Just like ChatGPT and other generative language models train on human texts to create grammatically correct sentences, a new modeling method trains on recordings of birds to create accurate birdsongs.

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

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

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

Two new studies have found that whale song has structural similarities to human languages, especially when it comes to efficiency and brevity. It’s leading researchers to believe that evolutionary ...

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 Science further ...

Two studies reveal that the communication systems of most cetaceans examined adhere to the principles of efficiency and ...

Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our vocalizations follow the same principle ...

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