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Is the answer yes or no?

• dools 3y ago
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• lucb1e 3y ago
  Similar to asking whether we can do nuclear fusion: probably yes, you just have to tell me how. So basically no(t yet). Also, are you sure you don't read the article? It contains lots of vital information that we all came here to read, such as > Gero, who is forty-three, is tall and broad, with an eager smile and a pronounced Canadian accent (Nothing against Gero, this just happened to be the part my scroll wheel broke)
• stevenwoo 3y ago
  No. The one group the reporter embedded with studied sperm whales and after years of recording and study the researchers know that the whales use a series of clicks at each other and that different family groups use different series of clicks, and to human ears, it is very repetitive in all cases. It could depend upon almost anything else that could be relevant to cetaceans, like current direction or speaker depth. :) That research group has private funding for two more years. It was actually believed that sperm whales were silent until about seventy years ago. We also know this is similar behavior (pod specific vocalizations) if not in sound or pitch to orcas that hunt whale calves. https://kuow.org/stories/listen-to-the-last-song-toki-the-captive-orca-sang-which-her-mother-taught-her https://kuow.org/stories/listen-to-the-last-song-toki-the-ca...
• jccalhoun 3y ago
  Yes. You can talk to whales. Will they understand us or will we understand them? That's a different question.