Sperm whales produce clicking sounds that reach source levels of 236 dB re 1 micropascal at one meter, making them the ...

According to a new study, the marine creatures alter the pattern and timing of their clicks, almost like changing the way ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sperm whale clicks may contain vowel-like patterns that closely parallel human speech structure. (CREDIT: Shutterstock) The sound ...

Researchers listening off the Caribbean island of Dominica found variations in the mammals’ audible clicks when marine traffic was close ...

Matriarchal groups in east and west exhibit distinct click patterns, used to form social structures ...

Sperm whales' click-based communication system has patterns that echo how human languages use vowels, according to a new study published today in Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological ...

For sperm whales to live well, they must be heard. Whether diving to forage or chatting at the surface, orsupporting each ...

Like a group of scheming teens shifting their conversation when a teacher walks by, sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) ...

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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 ...