New Study Determines Penguins Have Similar Speech Patterns To Humans

(CNN) — In most human languages, the most frequently used words are short. Think “the,” and, “of ” and “a.”
It turns out the same thing goes for penguins too.
A team of researchers based in Italy have found “compelling evidence” that African penguins use the same speech patterns as we do — the first time this has been found in an animal other than a primate.
The team recorded 590 breeding calls known as “ecstatic display songs.&rd