In the December 2006 PLoS ONE, a new online journal, Clarke, Zuberbühler, and a colleague outline basic rules for gibbon songs stimulated by a predator’s presence versus those crooned with a mate.

When the researchers segmented whale songs based on these “transitional probabilities”—just as a human infant would—Zipf’s law of frequency fit the sounds like a glove.

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