Collaboration among whale scientists and a grad-student computer scientist yields fascinating new information on sperm-whale communication: "The researchers identified 156 different codas, each with distinct combinations of tempo, rhythm, rubato and ornamentation... this variation is strikingly similar to the way humans combine movements in our lips and tongue to produce a set of phonetic sounds" https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/science/whale-song-alphabet.html?unlocked_article_code=1.qE0.GQ-b.I7AWzexhM-Ol&smid=url-share #whales #cetaceans #animals #animalcommunication #marinebiology