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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 cl
by 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...