… We conducted such fits to the adult and infant dolphin repertoires, with the follow- ing results.
For the adult dolphins, the one-parameter chi-square fit yielded a Zipf slope of ÿ1.628, and a
two- parameter chi-square fit yielded the same value to three decimal places …

… 14], the model is able to trivially provide a perfect fit to any theoretical or empirical discrete
distribution; Zipf's law for … For each dolphin, the following information is shown: dolphin's name,
T, the total number of whistle types, V , the number of … Dolphins are sorted decreasingly by T …

… the frequency of calls of black capped chickadees [5] and in the frequency of dolphin whistle
types … of brevity has also been reported for the repertoire of surface behavioral patterns of dolphins
[8]. The … considered but also for the debate on the utility of the presence of Zipf's law in …

… (1999) proposed the use of information theory for their study of bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops
truncatus … Specifically, we wish to illustrate that Zipf's law is of little use in the analysis of … The
presence or absence in dolphins and other animals of some features of human language …

… Adult dolphin data (Fig … rank of signal was regressed against log frequency of occurrence indicating
that the distribution of whistles in the dolphins' repertoire is … in fact, closely matches that found
for words in dozens of different human language samples (slope=1.00; Zipf's slope is …

… sualised using spectrograms. Studies have shown that the shape of the loop is unique for each
dolphin [6]. Recent studies have demonstrated that dolphins use the information stored in the
frequency modulation pattern of signature whistles to identify individuals [3]. Zipf's Law …

… results on the law of abbreviation involving r. First, r has been used to investigate a generalised
version of Zipf's law of abbreviation in dolphins surface behavioural patterns [12] and the vo-
calisations of Formosan macaques [13]. The magnitude of dolphin surface behavioural …

… The finding of patterning consistent with Zipf's law for word frequencies in dolphin whistles
(McCowan et al 1999) is very suggestive: dolphins and we humans could be sharing similar
principles of communication (Ferrer-i-Cancho & Solé 2003, Ferrer-i-Cancho 2016) …

… cities in Denmark (Knudsen 2001), companies in the USA (Axtell 2001), and whistles of dolphins
(McCowan et … Zipf's law for cities and beyond-The case of Denmark … tools for comparing animal
communication systems: information theory applied to bottlenose dolphin whistle reper …

… states that the longer the construct, the shorter its consistent parts, while Zipf's law posits … Here,
we investigate whether the whistle of dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), a species widely known for …
We show that, in dolphin vocal sequences, there is a negative relationship between the …