JERUSALEM — An international study, led by Israeli and British researchers, has found that whale song has a structure similar ...

This demonstrated that birds must learn songs early in life. This field of study was advanced further by Peter Marler and colleagues who showed that the song dialect is learned during a sensitive ...

This predictability is key to how babies learn language, as they listen to the sequences of sounds ... This had not previously been found in any other non-human animal. Revealing this hidden ...

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 ...