Humpback whale songs have statistical patterns in their structure that are remarkably similar to those seen in human language. While this doesn’t mean the songs convey complex meanings like our ...

Whether helpful or not to the synaesthete, research into synaesthesia can help us to understand cognitive processes of language and perception. "Synaesthesia is an intriguing phenomenon in itself ...

The pattern, which has also been documented in birds and nonhuman primates, may have evolved as a way to reduce the costs of communication. “Things like bird song and whale song are very hard to ...

Humpback Whale Song Shares a Key Pattern With Human Language That Might Make It Easier for the Animals to Learn Despite humans and whales being separated by millions of years of evolution, our ...