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

The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common ...

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

Humpback whale song is one of the most striking examples of a socially learned, culturally transmitted behaviour in a nonhuman animal. Whale song exhibits systematic structure, however ...

A new study reveals that whale song and human languages share features that make them easier to learn. Humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) are known for their complex songs. New research ...

Perhaps these might be younger animals that couldn't feed enough in the summer, but that means they might be a little vulnerable.' She advised anyone who spots humpback whales to be 'respectful ...

Volunteer rescuers have freed a humpback whale that had become entangled in rope at a Skye salmon farm. The animal was spotted in difficulty at Organic Sea Harvest's Invertote site in the north of ...

A collision with an ocean vessel may have been what killed a humpback whale ... Center and the Ocean Animal Response and Research Alliance in Los Angeles examined the whale. They found significant ...

they monitored the newly freed animal. “Finally it began to swim and drive, showing all the great behavior we hope to see in a humpback,” the staff member said in the video. Humpback whales ...

Sightings of humpback ... with the animal reclassified from ‘vulnerable’ to ‘least concern’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species database. The sighting of the whales in North ...

This statistical rule is called Zipf’s law, and now, an interdisciplinary team of scientists has revealed that humpback whale songs follow the same pattern. In a study published Thursday in the ...