Research published in Science reveals that humpback whale songs exhibit Zipf's law, a linguistic pattern previously only observed in human languages where word frequencies follow a predictable distribution. The discovery suggests that cultural learning mechanisms shared between humans and whales lead to similar structural patterns in their communication systems, despite vast evolutionary differences.

https://theconversation.com/whalesong-patterns-follow-a-universal-law-of-human-language-new-research-finds-249271

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