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Study finds sperm whale clicks share key patterns seen in human speech
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Sperm whale clicks contain vowel-like patterns similar to human speech
The sound is sharp, spare and strange, a burst of clicks cutting through seawater. For years, researchers treated those sperm ...
Sperm whales communicate in a series of short clicks called codas. Analysis of these clicks shows that the whales can ...
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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