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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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[–] Haggunenons@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, exploitation like this is a big concern in the digital bioacoustics community with groups like Earth Species Project.

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

You saying this group is good or bad? It would certainly be transformative to hear what the animals are saying, an ancient fantasy of humankind, magic.

[–] Haggunenons@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

So far as I know they are great, I mean it is a concern of theirs. They do some cool stuff, they have a fairly active discord with quite a bit in it.