Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) has announced that it's analyzed sperm whales' pattern of vocalizations and broken it down into a complex phoenetic alphabet, including consonants and ...

Deep beneath the ocean surface, sperm whales swim through the dark waters, clicking to each other in bursts of sound that can travel for kilometres. Now, scientists say they are beginning to follow ...

Like a group of scheming teens shifting their conversation when a teacher walks by, sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) ...

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 ...

Sperm whales probably aren't at the top of the list of animals that most people would liken to humans. Nonetheless, a new study of the massive species indicates that they may be using vowel sounds in ...

Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) has published two scientific studies presenting the most comprehensive documentation of a sperm whale birth ever recorded and the first quantitative ...

Scientists are sharing their remarkable findings about sperm whales after studying what they call the "most comprehensive" documentation of a sperm whale birth. According to a release from Project ...

The post Sperm Whales Have Been Speaking for Centuries. We’re Finally Listening. appeared first on A-Z Animals. Compared to other marine animals, whales have been understudied. Spending their lives in ...

"CETI's research on sperm whales demonstrates that these highly auditory and social beings have communication systems with linguistic complexity," Dr. Gruber explains, "while MOTH suggests that our ...