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

Killer whales are the only natural predator of baleen whales—those that have "baleen" in their mouths to sieve their plankton ...

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

Some baleen whales avoid killer whale attacks by singing songs at deep frequencies that their predators cannot hear.

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 ...

Only male whales sing as part of an elaborate courtship display to prove their worth to potential mates. Other ways to woo a whale can include physical competition, where males charge at speed all in ...

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

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

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.

A study finds that whale songs are similar to human speech patterns after breaking down the sound lengths and frequencies ...

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