SPERM WHALE COMMUNICATION CODA'S

TECHNOLOGY REVIEW COM : THE WAY SPERM WHALES COMMUNICATE check out the article and the video!

EXCERPT: But there’s also a lot we don’t know about them, including what they may be trying to say to one another when they communicate using a system of short bursts of clicks, known as codas. Now, new research published in Nature Communications today suggests that sperm whales’ communication is actually much more expressive and complicated than was previously thought.

A team of researchers led by Pratyusha Sharma at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) working with Project CETI, a nonprofit focused on using AI to understand whales, used statistical models to analyze whale codas and managed to identify a structure to their language that’s similar to features of the complex vocalizations humans use. Their findings represent a tool future research could use to decipher not just the structure but the actual meaning of whale sounds.

The team analyzed recordings of 8,719 codas from around 60 whales collected by the Dominica Sperm Whale Project between 2005 and 2018, using a mix of algorithms for pattern recognition and classification. They found that the way the whales communicate was not random or simplistic, but structured depending on the context of their conversations. This allowed them to identify distinct vocalizations that hadn’t been previously picked up on.

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Are  you practicing your clicks?

KILLERS IN EDEN : NATURE LIBRARY FILM

Wow!  I've been blogging about the ocean environment and all it's creatures, changes in sea levels, mysterious things under the sea, as well as surfers, scientists, pirates and mermaids, for four years!   It seems that there is always some news that applies to this blog, and I hope that you are inspired to exercize your own research skills as well!

To celebrate I watched a DVD put out by WNET New York, in the NATURE LIBRARY, called KILLERS IN EDEN.  This is not your average story about Killer Whales.  This is about a small town on the coast of Australia where, for a hundred years, there was a deal between certain humans and the Killer Whales.  They helped each other hunt, but with one detail.  When a Team of Killer Whales preyed upon the planton eaching baleen whales that came into the bay at Eden, they would make a ruckus by smacking their tales on the water and then WAIT until the humans came to kill.  Then the humans would provide the whates with the delicacy of THE TOUNGE of the baleen whale as a reward.  The humans came to know the Killer Whales by name...

How mysterious!  So Interesting! 

MALE BELUGA WHALE MIMICS HUMAN SONG

LIVE SCIENCE : MALE BELUGA WHALE ARTICLE

Sounds like he's singing ANCHORS AWAY to me!?

Seriously, here is the article from LIVE SCIENCE.  I've been looking for an advertisement-free video so you can hear him sing... This is the best one I foun on Youtube!!