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Marine biologists and computer scientists say they have discovered that sperm whales use a "phonetic alphabet." Do they use it for a language made of underwater clicks? Here's my story. 🧪 [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/s...

Scientists Find an ‘Alphabet’ in Whale Songswww.nytimes.com Sperm whales rattle off pulses of clicks while swimming together, raising the possibility that they’re communicating in a complex language.

So cool