[timschmidt]

Cetacean communication obeys Zipf's law: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11797547/

As does house finches: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.202...

Sperm whale codas exhibit contextual and combinatorial structure: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47221-8

Ants have developed symbolic language: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10093743/

Everywhere we look close enough, we find life doing smart things.

[andsoitis]

Those are interesting examples. Do you know of a species where ALL of those properties (and more) exist?

[timschmidt]

Likely all of the ones named, and more. These are just a sampling of papers and not at all exhaustive.