#spermwhales — Public Fediverse posts
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Incredible Breakthrough in Whale Communication Studies - YouTube
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New Non-Invasive Drone Method Determines Sperm Whale Sex and Age from Aerial Photos
📰 Original title: Inferring sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) sex and developmental stage using aerial photogrammetry
🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Usuarios: It's not clickbait ✅View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/new-non-invasive-drone-method-determines-sperm-whale-sex-and-age-from-aerial-photos/?redirpost=e5b8eb63-5e04-4a7a-ab5e-30057acc01cd
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Little by little, Homo sapiens is coming down from its pedestal. We are discovering that many species use forms of communication just as sophisticated as our own.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/sperm-whales-alphabet-vocalizations-similar-humans -
Scientists Capture First-Ever Detailed Footage of Sperm Whale Birth https://petapixel.com/2026/03/30/scientists-capture-first-ever-detailed-footage-of-sperm-whale-birth/ #Miscellaneous #aerialfootage #dronefootage #spermwhales #spermwhale #drone
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UC #Berkeley #scientists hail breakthrough in decoding #whale #communication
According to a new study from Begus and his colleagues with Project #CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative), the whales make sounds that resemble vowels, a key part of human language.
Although scientists already knew that #spermwhales communicate with codas — sequences of clicks analogous to #MorseCode — the study indicates a more complex communication system.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/scientists-breakthrough-decoding-whales-21184413.php -
Ancient fossil sperm #whale may have been active predator https://phys.org/news/2025-05-ancient-patagonian-fossil-sperm-whale.html
Awakening #Patagonia's sleeping #SpermWhale: a new description of the Early #Miocene Idiorophus patagonicus. By Florencia Paolucci et al. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/spp2.70007
"Its snout features point to a lifestyle quite different from modern sperm #whales. It was likely an active predator of large #fish and possibly #seabirds, while extant #SpermWhales feed mostly on #cephalopods or small fish through suction feeding"
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Large number of #whale sightings off #NewEngland, including dozens of endangered sei whales https://phys.org/news/2024-06-large-whale-sightings-england-dozens.html
"A research flight made 161 sightings of seven different species of #whales on May 25 south of #MarthasVineyard and southeast of #Nantucket... The sightings included 93 of #SeiWhales, and that is one of the highest concentrations of the rare whale during a single flight... There were also endangered North Atlantic #RightWhales as well as humpback, fin, minke and #SpermWhales"
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To be fair, I'd probably do a poo or two if a pod of orcas was attacking me. Not because of tactics.
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#ML suggests all that relaxing #whale song might just be human-esque gossiping
"Contextual and combinatorial structure in #spermwhale vocalisations," was undertaken by MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (#CSAIL) researchers and #ProjectCETI. The team used a relatively simple #machinelearning algorithm to analyze the communicative sounds #spermwhales make, thought to be a system of fixed messages – are actually much more complex than previously thought.
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How #FirstContact With #Whale Civilization Could Unfold lead by #ProjectCETI; If we learn to speak their language, what should we say?
#SpermWhales are planet’s largest-brained animals, and their nested social structures are immense. About 10 whales swim together full-time as a unit. They will sometimes meet up with others in groups of hundreds. All of the whales in these larger groups belong to clans that can contain as many as 10,000
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/02/talking-whales-project-ceti/677549/
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These #Whales Still Use Their #VocalCords.
Unusual experiments on organs recovered from three carcasses suggest how #baleen whales call out at #sea. #Toothedwhales, like #spermwhales and #dolphins, use their larynges like a cork to seal their airways; they evolved a way to produce sounds in their nasal cavities instead. But #scientists suspected that filter-feeding #baleenwhales, including the musical #humpbacks and huge #bluewhales, still use their voice boxes. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/21/science/whale-song-voice-box.html?unlocked_article_code=1.XE0.Ohuo.tSXoT0veB5Lc&smid=url-share -
#Dominica creates world’s first marine protected area for sperm whales
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/13/caribbean-dominica-whale-reserveNearly 300 sq miles of water on west of #Caribbean island to be designated as a reserve for endangered animals.
#Conservation #ConservationOptimism #OceanOptimism #Whales #SpermWhales
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#Dominica creates world’s first marine protected area for sperm whales
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/13/caribbean-dominica-whale-reserveNearly 300 sq miles of water on west of #Caribbean island to be designated as a reserve for endangered animals.
#Conservation #ConservationOptimism #OceanOptimism #Whales #SpermWhales
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#Dominica creates world’s first marine protected area for sperm whales
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/13/caribbean-dominica-whale-reserveNearly 300 sq miles of water on west of #Caribbean island to be designated as a reserve for endangered animals.
#Conservation #ConservationOptimism #OceanOptimism #Whales #SpermWhales
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#Dominica creates world’s first marine protected area for sperm whales
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/13/caribbean-dominica-whale-reserveNearly 300 sq miles of water on west of #Caribbean island to be designated as a reserve for endangered animals.
#Conservation #ConservationOptimism #OceanOptimism #Whales #SpermWhales
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#Dominica creates world’s first marine protected area for sperm whales
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/nov/13/caribbean-dominica-whale-reserveNearly 300 sq miles of water on west of #Caribbean island to be designated as a reserve for endangered animals.
#Conservation #ConservationOptimism #OceanOptimism #Whales #SpermWhales
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My most recent publication has just dropped: a CNF piece in About Place Journal called “The Silent Madness of Whales.” https://aboutplacejournal.org/issues/the-more-than-human-world/communion/shantell-powell/ #whales #CNF #SpermWhales #ClimateChange @indigenousauthors #SeaLife #Nuliajuk #SpeculativeNonfiction #IndigenousFuturism #Inuit #IndigenousCreatives #WritersOfMastodon #AuthorsOfMastodon #ecology
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“Can we talk to whales?”
Some researchers believe we could at least talk at them, using #ML / #LLM. #CETI is trying to collect enough sperm whale data to build a language model.
This article is a deep dive on research with sperm whales and contains both disturbing history and a very heartwarming scene. Fascinating read.