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Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying a clan of sperm whales in the East Caribbean, found the mammals use clicks to tell other whales who they are.
Sperm whales are known to be very sociable and communicate with each other across thousands of miles with a series of rhythmic clicks, called codas.
Researchers have analysed recordings from 60 different members of the Eastern Caribbean sperm whale clan to create what they call a "sperm whale phonetic alphabet" of different click combinations.
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@Atmatan_Kabbaher 25 дней назад

Whales are sentient. The sooner humans grow up the better.

@nepq1of1 16 дней назад

Just about all animals are sentient.

@Atmatan_Kabbaher 16 дней назад

@@nepq1of1 Sapient. All animals are sapient. Not all animals are sentient, but far more than just humans, certainly. Use words properly.

@nepq1of1 16 дней назад

@@Atmatan_Kabbaher Sapient means attempting to appear wise. Sentient means to feel. Scratch "just about" - all animals are sentient. All animals feel emotions. Use words properly.

@Atmatan_Kabbaher 16 дней назад

@@nepq1of1 A very quick and simple search would immediately prove you wrong without me needing to. History and objectivity show you as an idiot. As far as animals go, you aren't very impressive.

@Atmatan_Kabbaher 16 дней назад

@@nepq1of1 Just to cover my bases: * Sentience has nothing whatsoever to do with emotion * Sentience has nothing to do with feeling or intuition whatsoever * Sapience implies intuition and the ability to apply knowledge, not your incorrect and slimmed down half definition. * Watch your mouth before someone shows you what an animal that doesn't feel looks like.

@Samirustem 27 дней назад

Our imagining aliens is so primitive. Here we are with animal that shares most of its genome and history with us and its more alien than anything i have seen in fiction

@Junksaint 27 дней назад

Aliens realistically would have technology we can barely dream of

@t3hpenguinofd00m 27 дней назад

@@Junksaintaliens that could reach earth would, yes. Most aliens that just exist very simply on their home planets probably wouldn't.

@ElonHusky 27 дней назад

@@Junksaint depends if they just in early evolution face then not may be they're in stone age or exitnct long ago

@user-rg7uh9se4c 27 дней назад

This animal is barely related to primates.

@eonthinker100yrago8 27 дней назад

@@Junksaint Or maybe alien life is animal like lifeforms or intellegent beings still in primitive phase.

@user-ps5dn7nr9o 24 дня назад

For those that didn’t know, the clicks you can hear, they can rattle your ribcage and actually hurt you because of how sound travels in water. Quite interesting

@JJONNYREPP 23 дня назад

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@ShiftyGeeza 24 дня назад

Message from Whales to humans decoded: "You should have stayed in the oceans. What a friggin mess you've made of the planet"

@Myrdin90 18 дней назад

Sperm whales are mammals who went back to the sea. If animals never left the water then they wouldn't exist

@vectorfox4782 26 дней назад

The humans thought that they were the only intelligent life, fully unaware of their forerunners.

@Myrdin90 18 дней назад

Forerunners? Do tou mean the whales? 😂

@vectorfox4782 18 дней назад

@@Myrdin90 what crated your species?

@shenvalla 15 дней назад

@@vectorfox4782monke

@Myrdin90 15 дней назад

@@vectorfox4782 Humans? Nothing. A series of random changes happened that just ended up with us.

@vectorfox4782 15 дней назад

@@Myrdin90 spoiler alert: not random. You are an experiment in progress

@joermnyc 27 дней назад

Makes you wonder what their word for humans is. “Annoying land monsters with pointy sticks”?

@SidewalkCitizenLA 27 дней назад

You forgot "who poison everything with their garbage"

@jordancostello3385 27 дней назад

The gods

@pandoraalberts5267 27 дней назад

Probably ruder than we could possibly imagine.

@joermnyc 26 дней назад

@@jordancostello3385 more like demons.

@argfasdfgadfgasdfgsdfgsdfg6351 25 дней назад

Nah, it's 'Click-click clickity click *pause* click-clack' .

@DenisCalligraphy 27 дней назад

I think she meant whales can dive over 1,000 FEET not 1,000 kilometres! Oops at 3:04

@danielbrooks6947 27 дней назад

This. I was like hold on a second 😂

@DenisCalligraphy 27 дней назад

@@danielbrooks6947 Americans are not used to metrics. Otherwise she was knowledgeable.

@RandomNooby 26 дней назад

1000 freedom units

@DenisCalligraphy 26 дней назад

At less that 11 kilometres, the Challenger Deep is the deepest part of the oceans, so to dive to 1,000 km would definitely be a deep challenge!

@martensjd 26 дней назад

More likely 1000m or 1km than 1000 feet.

@vaunniethayer1484 26 дней назад

It sounds like a Morse code.

@quite1enough 27 дней назад

I wish I live to the day when I'll be able to freely speak with whales, bcs I'm getting tired of humans...

@nickb220 26 дней назад

i'm tired of you too bro

@skycloud4802 26 дней назад

A whale probably wouldn't want to speak to you either.

@jeremeytheking 26 дней назад

Good luck trying to talk to them without the vibrations killing you

@quite1enough 26 дней назад

@@jeremeytheking at a distance....

@quite1enough 26 дней назад

@@Emptybladder still more sensible than most humans

@Lazaruslove 26 дней назад

They are so magnificent. I don’t know how we can trash the oceans or our beautiful planet.

@andrewj22 26 дней назад

"Alphabet" seems a bad analogy, since humans only use an alphabet in the context of written communication. An alphabet doesn't make sense without the written word.

@lfeb 24 дня назад

More like a dictionary?

@andrewj22 24 дня назад

@@lfeb How about just "words"?

@stefaniev.5884 23 дня назад

It's Frequency 🌌

@andrewj22 23 дня назад

@@stefaniev.5884 Sure, but that's not an analogy to what humans can relate to. The question is, "what do the frequencies represent?" It isn't plausible that the frequencies would represent something analogous to letters (which are not carriers of meaning). It only makes sense that they're akin to words or word parts (like prefixes, suffixes, etc.) - things that have semantic significance.

@kimarna 23 дня назад

The word you want is phonemes, units of meaningful sound that make up a language

@BlameThande 27 дней назад

Star Trek IV was right!

@frankcherry3810 27 дней назад

Boy, that shows your age! Haha

@javastream5015 27 дней назад

Yes, but it was not with sperm whales. It was with humpback whales. And it was the probe which communicated with the whales. 🐳

@mcflyfarm 27 дней назад

Gracie is pregnant.

@samsmith2635 27 дней назад

Transparent Aluminum and Scotty. That scene, "hello computer"

@joermnyc 27 дней назад

@@javastream5015Spock said it best, “There are other forms of intelligence on Earth, Doctor. Only human arrogance would assume the message must be meant for man.”

@TheAshCooper 27 дней назад

I'm embrassed it took this long to admit all nature is sentient

@noneyabizz8337 27 дней назад

Science.... letting us all know what we've known about whales for decades.

@markarmage3776 27 дней назад

We have never denied that they're sentient. But we do deny that they're rational beings, there's a gigantic difference.

@samsmith2635 27 дней назад

@@markarmage3776 Whales live in Balance with their environment, that's 100% more rational than the Human approach....

@markarmage3776 27 дней назад

@@samsmith2635 That's not what rational actually means, buddy. Go grab a dictionary. You have no understanding what the word environment means, or what the word harmony means.

@angrycinnamontoast794 27 дней назад

@@samsmith2635what is bro yapping about

@s1nb4d59 26 дней назад

It was really interesting what taylor was saying it was a pity the interview was so short as im sure there could have been alot more said on the topic from her,she did well in her first interview

@Iplayforfood88 26 дней назад

More research needs to be done on military grade Sonar and then effect it has on Sea life.

@JJONNYREPP 23 дня назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2TWoZnKPVfQ.htmlfeature=shared

@logicalmusicman5081 26 дней назад

It is great to see more study in this area and expanding our understanding of intelligent animals.

@twistedyogert 26 дней назад

I'm not surprised that they do. Whales are quite intelligent.

@capt.bart.roberts4975 27 дней назад

That was the most informative article on The Beeb, for a while.

@Junksaint 27 дней назад

Whales and dolphins both, there are a few other fish that talk and many ocean species can use tools. If they buried their dead, we'd have to consider them proper intelligent.

@t3hpenguinofd00m 27 дней назад

Elephants apparently conduct funerary rites for their dead. That's pretty close to burying them.

@noneyabizz8337 27 дней назад

Lots of fish make noise

@PrenticeSummerscales 27 дней назад

@@noneyabizz8337 Yes, fish are more vocal than a lot of people realise. Toadfish serenade each other.

@Junksaint 27 дней назад

@@t3hpenguinofd00m I know an orca mother carrier her babies body for Miles when it was stillborn, they certainly experience powerful emotions

@t3hpenguinofd00m 27 дней назад

@@Junksaint yep, absolutely. I've seen simian species do this as well. We humans really don't give some animals enough respect.

@keikei3301 19 дней назад

This is absolutely wonderful! MORE OF THIS TYPE OF CONTENT PLS!

@shmookins 16 дней назад

Whale: "Say hi to your mother for me".

@jguitar23 26 дней назад

I'm sure they often say, "Sloppy humans, clean up that damned garbage patch!!"

@kiuk_kiks 26 дней назад

3:06 Dive 1,000 kilometres to feed? Where are they going? To the earth’s mantle??? 😂😂😂😂😂

@alistair9283 26 дней назад

I am high and fuckn gas-lighting myself into thinking it makes sense.

@Rotsen-br9zq 26 дней назад

When I heard that "thousand kilometers", whaaatttt? I'm sure she meant thousand meters.

@umeinui 26 дней назад

😂

@saifwins95 26 дней назад

Maybe she meant deep grazing across 1000km of distance, not at 1000km depth?

@El_Vuego 16 дней назад

I think she accidentally misspoke. Spermwhales diving to 1000 meters isn't rare at all. And mothers won't stray for a 1000 km from their family. So i think she meant to say 1000 meters there

@zipperpillow 19 дней назад

Whale: "Dang! Where did all the fish go?"

@jonnynice8366 20 дней назад

I never knew whales could dive over 1000 kilometers deep!

@cuongbang7721 26 дней назад

I thought the deepest part of the ocean is called the Challenger Deep and it is approximately 10,935 meters (< 11km), and at 3:04, she said the mother whale dive deep over 1000 km! Maybe she mistaken meter and kilometer?

@orlock20 26 дней назад

She's American. Besides, people thought that Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea was a reference to depth.

@francoisleclerc521 15 дней назад

Yes meters.

@imtiazdar7787 27 дней назад

*Whale Baby Sitting* ❤

@whatabouttheearth 18 дней назад

"now were going to talk about how Wales talk" These English still confused by celtic languages 😂

@albertines4827 21 день назад

Do they look closely at the relationships between the pod and a newly born calf, how they teach the calves language? What are their thoughts on regional dialects (like orcas and crows likely have) and how that plays in to decoding the codas? Where do I find the answers to these questions?!

@boeingpameesha9550 26 дней назад

Thank you for sharing.

@jeremyhunter1459 12 дней назад

"Is Bob coming over for dinner? Yes. It's so weird that you have a co-worker over for dinner." Some whale speak

@theflyingfool 25 дней назад

Probably the first thing we'll learn is "I wish they would leave us alone to live in peace!"

@carlgodfrey4482 27 дней назад

How sad is people trying to hunt and eat these unicorn creatures and all the trash we dump in a ocean knowing they are there but they may be even more amazing creatures that we can't even dream in our imagination dreams I wonder what the very 1st message would be, what a time to be alive

@frankcherry3810 27 дней назад

Finally! Something intersting

@davewilson9738 26 дней назад

And we still hunt whales and octopi, whilst knowing they are intelligent, sentient creatures. One day we will know exactly what they say and be shamed by them.

@massimo4227 26 дней назад

Sounds like they use a sort of morse code with different intonations.

@mortalclown3812 13 дней назад

How cool to hear this. Giraffes have similar arrangements - herd love. Babysitting and subsonic communication happening. Beautiful. Let's hope we're not too late to bring Earth the triage she needs.

@michaeladams5332 24 дня назад

Of course

@blairariavanderkamp3405 26 дней назад

What a wonderful video!!

@user-cvbnm 27 дней назад

If we keep this studying up we can talk to animals

@Rnankn 27 дней назад

Are you prepared for what they will say?

@Astridreynold 26 дней назад

we know what they will say

@sahaquiel4640 26 дней назад

@@Astridreynold "SEND DOWN MORE HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP NOW!!" Can't blame them tbh

@garysloan9793 17 дней назад

Whoa! They can dive one thousand kilometers? That’s nuts! Why would they visit the molten mantle?

@Sun18Jul 26 дней назад

"Alphabet"? "Codas"? The only way I can make sense of this report is to replace those terms with "words" and "vocabulary," possibly interchangeably.

@Lisargarza 20 дней назад

Codas only used in social situations= I guess whales don’t mutter to themselves….

@patrickdempsey9706 27 дней назад

Apparently Ai is going to help translate down the road.

@kurare175 25 дней назад

they sound like hooligan drum

@icyxxxxx 27 дней назад

Cool!

@dabrams84 26 дней назад

Oregon represent!

@kaisadler 21 день назад

Holy crap!! A whale can dive 1,000km into the ocean?!?!

@robertlussier2944 26 дней назад

Wait until they apply AI to birdsong!

@CPL-team 27 дней назад

absolutely amazing.....👍

@chhunmab 27 дней назад

Wow 😳😯

@JaneJones-lg3bd 17 дней назад

Well......another bunch of scientists have things all figured out! WOW! 😂😂😂

@andrescastro4836 27 дней назад

Let's get ready to understand what the other animals in the kingdom think of us humans. Might not be too nice at times I suspect....:-)

@thewatersavior 20 дней назад

By now they must have clicks to identify boats... perhaps even different clicks for different types. Finding a "rosetta" might look like a click pattern of introduction. How does a new whale join a pod?

@user-zf9dv8kg7q 27 дней назад

u can here whale chat in space station pick up ultra low freq use .

@SK-vg3mw 27 дней назад

I need to talk to those whales! 😁

@robbicoke3730 27 дней назад

Whale here, click clickitty clack clllllllllick currrlack

@EricLatios 24 дня назад

theres some at your mom's house

@franzherflek4116 25 дней назад

"now i know my a.b.c's come and swim along with me".

@zapfanzapfan 14 дней назад

What a lovely mammal.

@johnPrince-tc6fl 25 дней назад

Wouldn't they have different languages from the different regions of earth? Different oceans? Or do they assume a same language when trying to decifer?

@Coreyman32488 20 дней назад

If you want to understand, than u have to live among them and maybe they will help you understand. Once we catch on to there basics, we can learn exponentially

@Ritza.Elefteria.Michaki 20 дней назад

So nothing has been said but it was nice to see you,

@roosterd6904 22 дня назад

Scientist only figure this out AFTER, the whales tell them where to get off.

@nurabusnaq6367 23 дня назад

It’s more like Morse code. Clicks are like dots & dashes

@NoWeakness9140 27 дней назад

Me: BBC news will help me to learn major things in the world BBC news: sperm whales 🗿

@joermnyc 27 дней назад

“Wait, what did the humans call us???!”

@Carmel99333 14 дней назад

Our family is whales we are family

@josephphoenix1376 27 дней назад

WOW 😳 Absolutely Amazing.....

@raisaraidactg1286 27 дней назад

Nice❤

@AaronsAnglingJourney 25 дней назад

😮 this is brilliant we are getting so advanced we can now understand animals and fish ❤

@drvortex52 24 дня назад

I'm afraid they don't dive 1000 kilometers. I think you mean 1000 meters. But a facnating story....

@polygonalmasonary 27 дней назад

Whales have an alphabet, everyone knows this already 🙄, it evolved in Caerphilly 😂🤣🤣🇬🇧

@ginseng6 26 дней назад

ijust laughed my ass off

@user-rg7uh9se4c 27 дней назад

OT: Benny Hill considered funnier than Monty Python by two TV stations --WOR and WLVI!

@JJONNYREPP 23 дня назад

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2TWoZnKPVfQ.htmlfeature=shared

@joshuapaul349 25 дней назад

They decoded some recently. Mostly a bunch of garbage about car extended warranties.

@lulucolby8882 26 дней назад

A whale of a story! So exciting

@user-eo1vz9lt8g 26 дней назад

all along they have been begging for a better name

@b4dabng272 26 дней назад

As science and technology advance, we slowly realise that humans are not a special god gifted being. All animals feel and subconsciously think, its sad that we lost the connection to the planet

@RandomNooby 26 дней назад

We never had it, we just preyed on everything same as all life...

@JJONNYREPP 23 дня назад

allegedly, that whale was saying: dont you ever cut my hair like that again.... so trev said....

@bossel 25 дней назад

"Sperm whales have their own alphabet" Now, this comes as a big surprise. An alphabet is the written representation of spoken language. So, what do the whales use to write? & what do they write upon?

@cal820 26 дней назад

Clic-clic-clicliclic, is all I have to say.

@VocalChainsStudio 19 дней назад

All life is one

@ChiaTheAtom 25 дней назад

Some real NEWS ❤

@ConsecDesign 14 дней назад

ok, cool... now lets stop destroying their habitat and grant them a proverbial seat at the table

@chadrickwalker8169 26 дней назад

So people really think animals are stupid? Everything have some form of language it’s just that they don’t use speech as how we do.

@soniaclark1220 27 дней назад

☀️

@markphc99 27 дней назад

Can we link what they say to what they do?

@marthajean50 18 дней назад

*Doctor* Taylor Hirsch. He said everything but.

@Ronin.Spirit 27 дней назад

Peter Griffin: I found out what the hole of whales was not made for

@dogecoinx3093 19 дней назад

morse code?

@pdw8635 27 дней назад

Well I sure as hell hope so! I never expected to be watching a David Attenborough documentary on whales and have him say- listen to this pod of whales as they communicate with each other… LMNOP! QRS! TUV! W! X! Y AND Z!!

@wildandbarefoot 26 дней назад

Whalesong is mostly swearing at humans.

@falanajerido875 27 дней назад

Interesting enjoy

@andrereloaded1425 26 дней назад

She's a whale expert. An expert on whales.

@Drobalar-Drsebi 26 дней назад

*MR OBALAR* ON RU-vid CURED ME TOTALLY…

@andrereloaded1425 26 дней назад

@@Drobalar-Drsebi But he's not a whale expert - he's haddock-tor.

@jamesdufeu8046 20 дней назад

We are such a primitive species

@roberttalada5196 27 дней назад

Way to oversimplify science BBC.

@CamNews-bt2du 27 дней назад

Do you love whale songs?

@00ta 27 дней назад

Perhaps other mammals, such as cats, dogs, and cows, may share similar capabilities... It's amazing.

@RandomNooby 26 дней назад

Woof

@mgaesthetic 26 дней назад

We got the whale rosetta stone before gta vi

@quantrung1914 27 дней назад

even if they communicate each other by their click code, their code may may show just one meaning signal, like “watch out”, “here is fish ”. guessing they cant talk about something abstract like human beings.