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Odd animal news. (The news is odd, not the animals)

From Harper’s March and April 2020 Findings: African penguins were found to be the first non-primates whose speech exhibits both the Menzerath-Altmann Law and Zipf’s Law of Brevity. What? I read definitions for both of these laws; I need definitions … Continue reading

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