Sperm whale sounds are ‘one of the closest parallels’ in the animal kingdom to human language, a new study found.
While humpbacks sing hypnotic songs, sperm whales communicate through rhythmic clicks known as codas and scientists at Project Ceti have discovered that each click comes at a different frequency – like human vowel sounds.
Previous studies have focuses on the timing of their clicks to try to decipher their language, similar to Morse code, but this
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