The latest study is a big step forward in decoding whale linguistics—and machine learning is making it possible.
Sperm whales’ clicking communiques include context and combination structures that make their messaging more akin to language than previously known, according to a team of researchers at MIT. Sperm whales have the largest brains in the animal kingdom. Their clicks are how the whales converse with one another.
” The features, called rubato and ornamentation, are imitated across the whales studied in the dataset. The research team also named two features independent from the conversational context which they named rhythm and tempo. Rubato and ornamentation combine with rhythm and tempo to create the range of whale codas, they concluded, adding that the vocalizations are on the whole “more expressive and structured than previously believed.
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