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Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language::Researchers have identified new elements of whale vocalizations that they propose are analogous to human speech, including vowels and pitch.

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[-] Haggunenons@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah, exploitation like this is a big concern in the digital bioacoustics community with groups like Earth Species Project.

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You saying this group is good or bad? It would certainly be transformative to hear what the animals are saying, an ancient fantasy of humankind, magic.

[-] Haggunenons@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

So far as I know they are great, I mean it is a concern of theirs. They do some cool stuff, they have a fairly active discord with quite a bit in it.

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