Link to the Show / Show NotesTo 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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