Study (Maria) The author writes, “The mysterious grunts and moans of the humpback whale have long captivated humans — so much ...

But these are special occasion words, sprinkled sparingly into writing and conversation. The words in heaviest rotation are ...

The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be ...

Human babies rely on a strategy called “statistical learning” to identify certain words and patterns as they get exposed to ...

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

The new study challenges the so far considered unique hallmark of the human way of communication. Humpback whale song follows ...

Scientists have discovered that human language and whale songs have remarkable similarities in the way they are segmented and ...

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton diet from the water. More solitary than toothed whales, baleen whales face ...

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

Humpback whale song is one of the most complex acoustic displays in the animal kingdom, a striking example of a socially ...

Most of us are familiar with whale song, but new research suggests that the structure of the song - the individual parts that make up the whole - has similarities to human language.

New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep frequencies that they're completely undetectable by killer whales, which cannot hear sounds below 100 hertz. These also tend to be the ...