David Gruber began his almost impossibly varied career studying bluestriped grunt fish off the coast of Belize. He was an undergraduate, and his job was to track the fish at night. He navigated by the ...
Project CETI believes the only approach to understanding whale language is non-invasive. This has allowed the team to be present for incredible events, like the birth of a baby sperm whale in 2023, ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The eye of a sperm whale. (Mike Korostelev/Moment/Getty Images) The staccato clicks of sperm whales may sound like meaningless ...
Project CETI believes the only approach to understanding whale language is non-invasive. This has allowed the team to be present for incredible events, like the birth of a baby sperm whale in 2023, ...
When members of Project CETI (the Cetacean Translation Initiative) witnessed the birth of a sperm whale, they observed a breathtaking scene of cooperation and communication that few humans on earth ...
A new report from scientists at Project CETI demonstrates that the noises that sperm whales make to communicate with each other contain what humans would describe as vowels. If you had to try to ...
Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. We may appear to have little in common with sperm whales—enormous, ocean-dwelling ...
Compared to other marine animals, whales have been understudied. Spending their lives in the open ocean, sometimes in very remote locations, whales are more often heard than seen. Consequently, ...