Stunning audiovisual recording of humpback whales singing

🐋🎶 Whale song and human language share an unexpected connection! A new study has found that humpback whale songs follow the same structural patterns as human language, making them easier to learn and pass down through generations. Researchers analyzed eight years of whale recordings from New Caledonia and discovered that whale songs follow Zipfian distribution—a universal linguistic rule where simpler sounds are used more frequently than complex ones. This pattern helps infants in both species