Project CETI - An Initiative to Listen to and Decode the Communication of Sperm Whales

[@sianmeeuwsen8440]

This is so exciting - whale communication has been a passion of mine since childhood so I am following this amazing initiative in absolute glee.

[@timmcdraw7568]

I was listening to this while working in my paintings studio and I just got an idea - I don’t know if it’s stupid, or if they will talk about it later in the show, or if it’s even worth anything… but I was thinking that since they see in the depth using echo location, with their clicks, and also they click to hold conversations with their pod, what if it’s not a language in the way we think of it, with grammar etc, but what if they’re painting to one another! Literally painting pictures, in 3D, using echo location memories or imaginings, for example reporting on hunts by clicking the “visuals” of their echo location as they were during the hunt?

[@timmcdraw7568]

I already realize that this idea doesn’t make sense since different pods have different dialects, and I’m guessing echo location is simply echo location. I got over-excited in a way I’m sure only non-scientists do

[@dog-talker]

We're thinking that could be their communication method but we just don't have enough information. I work with the Orcasound team and we have a Slack where we talk about these topics .

[@hanskraut2018]

Good Job on using the right tools. (A thing to put on the wales by wacuume or smth like that that records stuff might be a low cost thing than to have to get microphones by chasing. Altho drones are also a possiblility eather droping microphones or stationary ones. In the end furthering deep lerning/ AI /machine lerning will increase the economy and therefore animal rights and budgets for animal habitat protection and research will increase. That is what happened when humans got way richer. As there problems improbed they had more patientce for such things. Good Job. Also maybe it might be lower cost to just have some dog or rat (since rat i heared are quite social, or some animal that somehow communicates a lot (probably more in group living animals) in the lab than chasing spermwales. BUT who knows. Definitly awesome that you use computers and modern human tools. Nice