Claims: How decoding beluga whales’ chitchat may save them – and teach us more about ourselves
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- title: How decoding beluga whales’ chitchat may save them – and teach us more about ourselves Source
- url: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/aug/27/how-decoding-beluga-whales-chitchat-may-save-them-and-teach-us-more-about-ourselves Source
- summary: From humpbacks learning the latest songs to sperm whales’ ‘clan codas’, drones and AI learning are helping reveal another dimension to the concept of culture Podcast: Could humans ever communicate with whales? In 2015, the whale researcher Valeria Vergara pitched a small tent at the icy water’s edge on Somerset Island in the remote Canadian high Arctic, shrouded in a freezing fog so thick she struggled to see her own hands. She trailed a cord out to the coast and plopped a hydrophone into the wa… Source
- published: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 09:02:13 GMT Source