The sperm whale communication system, consisting of groups of clicks called codas, has been primarily analyzed in terms of the number of clicks and their inter-click timing. This paper reports spectral properties in sperm whale vocalizations and ...
  • Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyzM
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    1 month ago

    Interesting. Now the next step is to analyse if they use those contours to convey meaning, and how. I wouldn’t be surprised if they did, and in a rather different way than non-human primates use their vocalisations.