Scientists Have Reported a Breakthrough In Understanding Whale Language
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.
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.
This is big news! We've got a lemmy community specifically about Digital Bioacoustics (technology and animal communication) for anyone interested.
65"So Long, and thanks for all the fish"
27"Who turned up the heat?"
18If complete mutually intelligible communication of complex ideas with another species is undeniably proven, that will be a massive boon for veganism(although of course not all animals are equal), and a legal quagmire. What do you do if they are suffering in ways that we can fix due to their environment? Like humans were, and then we changed our environment. Do you give whales weapons so they can defend themselves from orcas? Do you shoot whale pochers? Do you shoot orcas attacking whales? Do you farm krill for them to eat? Do you drastically alter the ocean surface to be more comfortable for whales?
After all, most people recognize it as good to alter a person's natural state(hunting and gathering from caves) for the better, so would that not be the same for animals that are considered essentially people or near-people?
17Just in time for them to go extinct. It’ll be helpful in a few hundred years though when we need to travel back in time again.
14They been talking to Dory?
5This was my favorite episode of Extrapolations!
3My Avatar whale dream might actually become a reality
2Soooo this totally not going to go wrong by the military or a mad scientist?
I feel like I saw this movie.0