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O=C=OWhalesong patterns follow a universal law of human language, new research findsAll known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is known as <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ZipfsLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ZipfsLaw</a>. In a new research published in Science, a team of experts in whale song, <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/linguistics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#linguistics</a> and developmental <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/psychology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#psychology</a> analyzed eight years' of song recordings from <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/HumpbackWhales" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HumpbackWhales</a> in <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/NewCaledonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewCaledonia</a>. Led by Inbal Arnon from the Hebrew University, Ellen Garland from the University of <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/StAndrews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#StAndrews</a>, and Simon Kirby from the University of <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Edinburgh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Edinburgh</a>, they used techniques inspired by the way human infants learn <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/language" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#language</a> to analyze humpback <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/whale" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#whale</a> song. They discovered that the same <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/ZipfianPattern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ZipfianPattern</a> universally found across <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/human" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#human</a> languages also occurs in <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/WhaleSong" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WhaleSong</a>. This complex signaling system, like human language, is culturally learned by each individual from others.<a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-02-whalesong-patterns-universal-law-human.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://phys.org/news/2025-02-whalesong-patterns-universal-law-human.html</a><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Biology</a>

Plazi Species<a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/NewSpecies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewSpecies</a>! New sea snail from <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/NewCaledonia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NewCaledonia</a> just crawled in:Talopena maestratiiTreatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/714FF54E-3715-323C-FD83-FCB5FB09FE41 Publication: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.973.2765 <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ejtaxonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ejtaxonomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/TalopenaMaestratii" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TalopenaMaestratii</a><a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/FAIRdata" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#FAIRdata</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#science</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/OA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OA</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/openaccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#openaccess</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/taxonomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#taxonomy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ecology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/biodiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#biodiversity</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/nature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#nature</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wildlife</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#conservation</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/animals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#animals</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/malacology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#malacology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/snails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#snails</a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/seasnails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#seasnails</a>

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