'Little by little, the sperm whales are divulging their secrets of how they're communicating to us,' one expert says.
But at the same time, a conundrum has plagued those who have spent decades listening in on the cetaceans’ conversations. For animals that clearly lead complex lives, they sure don’t seem to have very much to say.
Even with this limitation, Gero and his colleagues have previously used such recordings to determine that sperm whale codas differ depending on the group or region.
“Once we see it, we can't unsee it,” adds Gruber, who founded Project CETI, which provided the data for the new research. “It’s just beautiful.”Perhaps most exciting of all is that sperm whales may be capable of what’s called duality of patterning. This is when individually meaningless elements are combined to communicate more and more complex ideas.
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