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Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿★ ( koavf@lemmy.ml )  to Linguistics@mander.xyz · 6 months ago

Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds

www.theguardian.com

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Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds

www.theguardian.com

Justin (koavf)🌻🍉🇪🇭🌿★ ( koavf@lemmy.ml )  to Linguistics@mander.xyz · 6 months ago
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Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own
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  • supersquirrel ( supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ) 
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    I saw this article and was like “there must be somewhere specific I can post this” but couldn’t remember. Yes, here!

    I think we will be able to communicate in basic ways with whales at some point in the not too distant future, which is wild to say in a sentence but there is a lot of fascinating research going on and their language seems very sophisticated but also understandable to a human perspective.

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  • FederatedFreedom1981 ( FederatedFreedom1981@lemmy.ca ) 
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    I wonder how long until we Uplift them.

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        David Brin’s “Uplift” series. It’s an interesting sci-fi premise.

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          How would I have known what you were talking about?

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            I can understand your perspective on the lack of knowledge about the book series. But now you know!

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