The sound is sharp, spare and strange, a burst of clicks cutting through seawater. For years, researchers treated those sperm whale signals mostly as timing patterns, measuring pauses and rhythms the ...
Somewhere in the deep water off Dominica, a sperm whale surfaces after a foraging dive and fires off a rapid burst of clicks. To the human ear, it sounds like a stuttering zipper. To researchers from ...
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Sperm whales may have a human-like language: New study reveals vowel patterns in whale communication
New research from UC Berkeley’s Linguistics Department, in collaboration with Project CETI, suggests that sperm whale communication may mirror the structure and complexity of human language far more ...
New research reveals a previously unknown dimension of sperm whale vocalizations, shedding light on their complex communication system. NEW YORK, Nov. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A groundbreaking study ...
Sperm whales may have a human-like language: New study reveals vowel patterns in whale communication
New research reveals sperm whale communication is more complex than thought. Instead of simple clicks, whales use vowel-like sounds. These patterns are deliberate and structured, similar to human ...
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