The most common word is used twice as often as the second most common word, three times as often as the third most common ...

Zipf’s law of abbreviation was only found to apply to blue whales and humpback whales, though only five species could be ...

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California's Dungeness crab industry is under increasing regulation because of concerns over whales getting entangled in ...

The two creel fishermen had been fishing south of of Skye on Sunday when a report of the entangled marine animal was received ...

Peer-reviewed research by Hebrew University and Edinburgh University experts suggests such patterns might also shape sounds ...

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Whale song, though technically not a language, is organized in a familiar pattern.

All known human languages display a pattern known as Zipf’s law. Now, researchers have found the same pattern in whale song.

A key discovery was that whale song follows Zipf’s Law—a principle in human language where the most frequently used words appear roughly twice as often as the second-most common words, three times as ...

Humpback anglerfish typically are found at depths of up to 1,500 meters below the water's surface, where there is little to no sunlight.