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Grammar revealed in a whale’s love song


Grammar revealed in a whale’s love song

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DATE : Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:01:50 EST
Entered in Database : 2006-03-24 06:01:50
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To the casual human listener, the love song of a humpback whale sounds magnificently free-flowing and improvised. But fresh mathematical analysis of the song shows there are complex grammatical rules. Using syntax, the whales combine sounds into phrases, which they further weave into hours-long melodies packed with information. Although the researchers say these songs don’t meet the linguistic rigor necessary for a true language, this is the first evidence that animals other than humans use a hierarchical structure of communication. Whales have also been found to sing in dialects.read thearticle.listen to whale humpbacks humping..||dialectgrammarhumpback whaleslove songmelodydialect,grammar,humpback whales,love song,melody


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