The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common word, four times as often as the fourth most common word… and so on. This statistical rule is called Zipf’s law,

The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be because of how they are learned

JERUSALEM — An international study, led by Israeli and British researchers, has found that whale song has a structure similar to human language, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said in a statement on Sunday.