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Sperm Whales Speak with a Complex Alphabet and Even Have 'Vowels,' Study Finds
- lioeters 7mo agoThe article is based on this study: The phonology of sperm whale coda vowels - https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2994 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.2994 > In the present paper, we demonstrate that sperm whale codas not only resemble human vowels acoustically but also pattern like them along several linguistic dimensions.
- metalman 7mo ago"sqeeeeeeeeeek, hurrronk, hrrrrroinkk, skeeeeedrbllblubbbbb, sqeeeeejjjjjeeekkke, blllllluuubbbbnnn" translation "mother ship arriving soon, ape animal neutralisation procedure to begin imediatly"
- dlcarrier 7mo agoDo they have consonants?