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You can hear their passion in each tale.This podcast introduces listeners to researchers, mermaids, divers, and others who work in and around the ocean. Deep below the ocean's surface, blue whales are singingóand for the first time, scientists think they know why. Slobodchikoff calls the alarm calls a "Rosetta stone" in decoding prairie-dog language, because they occur in a context people can understand, enabling interpretation. (AP Photo / Guam Variety News, Chris Bangs, File).HALIFAX -- New research reveals there's more to being a sperm whale than deep diving, eating giant squid and being as big as a city bus.These lumbering behemoths may have their own distinct dialects and cultures -- and prefer other whales that are most like themselves, according to a marine researcher at Dalhousie University in Halifax.After analyzing 30 years of underwater recordings, PhD candidate Mauricio Cantor has found sperm whales learn to communicate from their peers and relatives, in much the same way that humans do. The finding could help with efforts to protect this endangered species. They found the,The second study was published in a recent issue of the,The scientists say the dialect findings could help guide conservation efforts for blue whales, whose numbers dwindled to dangerously low levels before whaling moratoria were enacted: There were once an estimated 200,000 to 300,000 in the Southern Hemisphere, but today that number is closer to 1,000, Scripps scientist John Hildebrand told,"By listening to the animals," he said, "you can tell something about the areas in which they are interacting to.Stay up to date on the coronavirus outbreak by signing up to our newsletter today.Thank you for signing up to Live Science. "I'm not saying that whale culture is as complex as human culture, but at least the (sperm whales) have these two main features.Mauricio Cantor, a PhD student studying the social and cultural identities of sperm whales, is seen at Dalhousie University in Halifax on Wednesday, April 6, 2016. Whale 2.0: Shane Gero on decoding the language and culture of sperm whales (Part Two) Part Two of our conversation with Behaviour Ecologist, Shane Gero, on his research efforts to decode the sophisticated language and culture of one of the deepest divers in the ocean - sperm whales.
The interviews are always interesting and make me wish I could tag along on their journeys for just a day.