The sound is sharp, spare and strange, a burst of clicks cutting through seawater. For years, researchers treated those sperm ...
According to researchers with Project CETI, a US non-profit working to understand sperm whales, the clicks known as "codas" ...
Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own ...
All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is ...
When linguists want to tell one vowel from another, they measure the peaks of acoustic energy that the human vocal tract ...
Somewhere in the deep waters off Dominica, a female sperm whale fires a rapid burst of clicks toward her companions. The ...