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Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language (www.vice.com)
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Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language::Researchers have identified new elements of whale vocalizations that they propose are analogous to human speech, including vowels and pitch.

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Can’t wait for them to tell us to stop being fuckheads and ruining the planet

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago

"So long and thanks for all the fish"

[–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

"end capitalism"

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

NOC's vocalizations were recorded and studied by a team of biologists from the National Marine Mammal Foundation (NMMF) led by Sam Ridgway. In 1984, Ridgway and others at the NMMF began to hear peculiar sounds coming from the whale and dolphin enclosure. They were reminiscent of two people talking in the distance, the words just beyond the limit of comprehension.[5] Later, a diver working in the enclosure came to the surface after he heard someone cry "out, out, out!"[1] After he asked his colleagues "Who told me to get out?", they realized it had been NOC.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOC_(whale)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

That was a trip.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

"the whales are communists, kill them all"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

we already are lol

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)