Scientists ran 40 years of humpback songs through language analysis and found verse-chorus-bridge structure. The lead researcher says it's not poetry. Her co-author is not so sure.

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A computational linguistics team fed four decades of humpback vocalizations through NLP. The songs have repeating sections that function like a verse, a chorus, a bridge.

Lead researcher: the whales are not writing poetry.

Co-author's footnote in the supplementary materials: not sure.

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