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Warbling Whales Speak a Language All Their Own
Linguistics Posted by Aelhswith on Thursday March 23, @07:18AM
from the jonah-and-pinocchio-deep-investigations dept.
[article] The songs of the humpback whale are among the most complex in the animal kingdom. Researchers have now mathematically confirmed that whales have their own syntax that uses sound units to build phrases that can be combined to form songs that last for hours. "Humpback songs are not like human language, but elements of language are seen in their songs," said Ryuji Suzuki, a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) predoctoral fellow in neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and first author of the paper.


http://www.hhmi.org/news/suzuki20060321.html

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