Researchers discovered that humpback whale song follows Zipf's law, a pattern also found in human languages. This pattern indicates that whale songs, like human language, are culturally learned.

Both species share a learning mechanism driven by cultural evolution, favoring statistically coherent structures for easier learning.

The findings raise questions about the possibility of communicating with whales and the existence of meaning in whale song.

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-whalesong-patterns-universal-law-human.html

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