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The Discovery of the Sperm Whale Phonetic Alphabet

2026-05-14 Science & Technology
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Support this channel on Patreon to help me make this a full time job: https://www.patreon.com/whatdamath (Unreleased videos, extra footage, DMs, no ads) Alternatively, PayPal donations can be sent here: http://paypal.me/whatdamath Get a Wonderful Person Tee: https://teespring.com/stores/whatdamath More cool designs are on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3QFIrFX Hello and welcome! My name is Anton and in this video, we will talk about CETI - the project to understand whales Links: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2069/20252994/481340/The-phonology-of-sperm-whale-coda-vowels https://www.projectceti.org/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-47221-8 https://elifesciences.org/reviewed-preprints/96362v1 https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/marine-science/articles/10.3389/fmars.2024.1324816/full https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adq7055 Previous video: https://youtu.be/EnhCUYvDHdU #ceti #whales #communication 0:00 SETI vs CETI 0:40 Whale language is way too complex 2:00 How sperm whales communicate - clans and cultures 4:05 Phonetic alphabet found 5:25 Vowels, intonation and coarticulation 6:40 Similar to Chinese 7:50 Why do they need this complexity? Breakthrough observations 9:10 Dolphins and humpbacks too 11:10 Conclusions Enjoy and please subscribe Bitcoin/Ethereum to spare? Donate them here to help this channel grow! bc1qnkl3nk0zt7w0xzrgur9pnkcduj7a3xxllcn7d4 or ETH: 0x60f088B10b03115405d313f964BeA93eF0Bd3DbF The hardware used to record these videos: New Camera: https://amzn.to/4pCVINS CPU: https://amzn.to/4qXIaxC Video Card: https://amzn.to/2M1W26C Motherboard: https://amzn.to/2JYGiQQ RAM: https://amzn.to/2Mwy2t4 PSU: https://amzn.to/2LZcrIH Case: https://amzn.to/2MwJZz4 Microphone: https://amzn.to/2t5jTv0 Mixer: https://amzn.to/2JOL0oF Recording and Editing: https://amzn.to/2LX6uvU Some of the above are affiliate links, meaning I would get a (very small) percentage of the price paid. Thank you to all Patreon supporters of this channel Special thanks also goes to all the wonderful supporters of the channel through YouTube Memberships Credit: Mark Garlick www.markgarlick.com Project CETI OperationCetaces https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L59pNqxvFdw Licenses used: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ and relevant Creative Commons licenses

Top Comments (10)

@JonasJankauskas 2026-05-13

So long and thanks for all the fish :)

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@Kenijamaru 2026-05-14

"mum i want to find intelligent life" - "we have intelligent life at home"

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@fernbedek6302 2026-05-14

*When you decode whale communication, but it's Chinese*: "No, no. It's good. I just didn't expect it to be Chinese."

645 24 replies
@Beeman-r3g 2026-05-15

In a better world, this is what we'd see in the news...

461 21 replies
@Noilo96 2026-05-14

It would be historic to have a conversation with them. It would be the closest we have ever reached to speak to a different species like we do with one another. The implications are HUGE. We can even start talking about “whale culture” and god knows what else. It’s A-mazing! Thank you Anton!

388 60 replies
@MonsterSound.Bradley 2026-05-15

Whales: "Your boats are TOO LOUD!"

338 7 replies
@242mphFalcon 2026-05-15

I don't think people understand how incredible it is that studies like this get funding.

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@durinironson 2026-05-15

We got chinese speaking whales before GTA 6...

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@JamieSwitzer 2026-05-15

Human: Greetings. We want to be friend. Communicate with you. Whale: where, you? Human: We near, above. See? Whale: (sees ship) yes.

48 3 replies
@YonahTheWhale 2026-05-15

can't wait for the YouTube polyglots to surprise whales with their language

32 3 replies

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