Scientists document remarkable sperm whale ‘phonetic alphabet’
The various species of whales inhabiting Earth’s oceans employ different types of vocalisations to communicate. Sperm whales, the largest of the toothed whales, communicate using bursts of clicking noises — called codas — sounding a bit like Morse code. A new analysis of years of vocalisations by sperm whales in the eastern Caribbean has found…
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