The sound is sharp, spare and strange, a burst of clicks cutting through seawater. For years, researchers treated those sperm ...
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Sperm whales communicate like humans, even using vowel sounds, study finds
"It's another humbling moment that we're not the only species with rich, communicative, communal, and cultural lives." ...
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Study finds sperm whale clicks share key patterns seen in human speech
When linguists want to tell one vowel from another, they measure the peaks of acoustic energy that the human vocal tract ...
Sperm whales’ click-based communication system has patterns that echo how human languages use vowels, according to a new study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological ...
CETI’s previous scientific findings, aided by artificial intelligence, have already revealed a strikingly intricate system of ...
Sperm whales may have a human-like language: New study reveals vowel patterns in whale communication
New research reveals sperm whale communication is more complex than thought. Instead of simple clicks, whales use vowel-like sounds. These patterns are deliberate and structured, similar to human ...
Project CETI, you may recall, is the same group that recently released footage showing adult sperm whales collaborating as ...
A new report from scientists at Project CETI demonstrates that the noises that sperm whales make to communicate with each other contain what humans would describe as vowels.
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