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Wops, thwops, grumbles and squeaks, said the whales
Posted on November 12, 2007. Filed under: codes, fishes, language, whales | Tags: , communication system, mammals, missing link, sea food, social vocalizations |
Australian scientists have decoded the language of the whales. Not the Welsh, mind you. I am talking about the mammalian fish-type.
working on the HARC project at the University of Queensland, they decoded the sounds made by humpback whales over the course of three years.
They identified a repertoir of 34 unique sounds or ’social vocalizations’. Of [...]
