The Discovery of the Sperm Whale Phonetic Alphabet @whatdamath
The Discovery of the Sperm Whale Phonetic Alphabet  @whatdamath
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Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about CETI - the project to understand whales
Links:
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2069/20252994/481340/The-phonology-of-sperm-whale-coda-vowels
projectceti.org
nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47221-8
elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/96362v1
frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.1324816/full
science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq7055
Previous video: youtu.be/EnhCUYvDHdU
#ceti #whales #communication

0:00 SETI vs CETI
0:40 Whale language is way too complex
2:00 How sperm whales communicate - clans and cultures
4:05 Phonetic alphabet found
5:25 Vowels, intonation and coarticulation
6:40 Similar to Chinese
7:50 Why do they need this complexity? Breakthrough observations
9:10 Dolphins and humpbacks too
11:10 Conclusions

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Credit:
Mark Garlick markgarlick.com
Project CETI
OperationCetaces
youtube.com/watch?v=L59pNqxvFdw

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