无用之用 ☯️ 🐋 ⚧️ 6d ago

I'm counting the days when we can successfully communicate with sperm whales 🐳. We will finally be able to apologise for almost making them extinct because of our thirst for money and "progress".

And we could tell them one of the greatest books ever written by our civilization is about them! 😍

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/sperm-whales-alphabet-vocalizations-similar-humans

Melville would be proud. 🫶🏾

#melville #hermanmelville #mobydick #whale #spermwhale #nonhumans

Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds

Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own

The Guardian
Mojo ♻️Apr 16

Okay this is wild — sperm whales apparently have their own phonetic "alphabet" with vowel-like sounds, tones, and layered structures that work a lot like human language.
These guys have been having deep, multi-generational conversations for millions of years. Just passing down knowledge like we do.
Honestly just a really cool reminder that we're not the only intelligent, cultural species on this planet. Nature still finds ways to blow my mind.

#whale #language #spermwhale

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/sperm-whales-alphabet-vocalizations-similar-humans

Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds

Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own

The Guardian
无用之用 ☯️ 🐋 ⚧️ Apr 15

WOAAAHHHH!!! 😍🐋🥰

"Not only do sperm whales have a form of 'alphabet' and form vowels within their vocalizations but the structure of these vowels behaves in the same way as human speech, the new study has found".

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/15/sperm-whales-alphabet-vocalizations-similar-humans

#spermwhale #whales #language #animalbehaviour

Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds

Analysis shows whales’ coda vocalizations are ‘highly complex’ and remarkably similar to our own

The Guardian
John     Apr 11

Rotting #SpermWhale #carcass forces relocation of #Tasmania's largest open water swim.

A 40-tonne sperm whale carcass has been decomposing on a Tasmanian beach for the past month and the state's environment department says it is not feasible to move it.
The carcass, and concerns about it attracting sharks, has forced the annual #DevilOfASwim to be moved from #Bicheno to #ColesBay.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-11/decomposing-whale-carcass-relocates-open-water-swim/106537682

'They attract sharks': Rotting whale carcass forces ocean swim to move

A 40-tonne sperm whale carcass has forced the relocation of Tasmania's biggest open water swim. Organisers of the event had hoped it would be moved, but the state's environment department says that was not feasible.

Front PageApr 3

Elder female sperm whales seen acting as midwives in historic new video

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/elder-female-sperm-whales-seen-acting-as-midwives-in-historic-new-video/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=elder-female-sperm-whales-seen-acting-as-midwives-in-historic-new-video

Unofficial PetaPixel BotMar 30
Scientists Capture First-Ever Detailed Footage of Sperm Whale Birth https://petapixel.com/2026/03/30/scientists-capture-first-ever-detailed-footage-of-sperm-whale-birth/ #Miscellaneous #aerialfootage #dronefootage #spermwhales #spermwhale #drone
Scientists Capture First-Ever Detailed Footage of Sperm Whale Birth

Observations of whale births in the wild are uncommon.

PetaPixel
CBC Top StoriesMar 28
Scientists captured rare video of a sperm whale birth. What they learned from that remarkable moment
Rare footage of a sperm whale giving birth has offered scientists a window into the behaviour of these large, elusive mammals.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/sperm-whale-birth-video-9.7144808?cmp=rss
Aubreader MastoMar 24

Scientists Capture Sperm Whales Headbutting in Stunning New Footage

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-capture-sperm-whales-headbutting-in-stunning-new-footage/

> Scientists have finally captured something long rumored but never proven: sperm whales headbutting each other. Using drone footage from the Azores and Balearic Islands, researchers observed younger, sub-adult whales deliberately ramming one another—challenging the long-held belief that such behavior was limited to massive adult males.

#whales #SpermWhale #EssexOfNantucket

Scientists Capture Sperm Whales Headbutting in Stunning New Footage

Sperm whales caught on camera headbutting each other—turns out the legends might have been true after all.

SciTechDaily
~meoralis~Feb 23
#FotoVorschlag: Das passt da nicht rein // That won't fit in there/this doesn't go there

Der gestrandete #Pottwal, der 2013 in Greenwich (#London) untersucht wurde, passte so gar nicht ans Ufer der Themse. Aber aus gutem Grund: Die lebensechte #Skulptur ist eine #Kunstaktion eines belgischen Kollektivs, die auf das Verschwinden der #Wale und den Klimawandel aufmerksam macht. Der #Wal wurde schon in einigen europäischen Städten gezeigt.
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The beached #spermWhale that was examined in #Greenwich (London) in 2013 felt out of place by the Thames. But for good reason! This remarkably life-like #sculpture is an #art installation by a Belgian art collective, created to raise awareness of the decline of #whales and the impact of climate change. The #whale has already toured several European cities.

👉 https://www.captainboomercollective.org/projects/whale/the-why-of-the-whale/


#OldRoyalNavalCollege #GreenwichFair #artInstallation #Kunstinstallation #hyperRealism #Hyperrealismus #saveTheWhales #spermWhales #Pottwale #CaptainBoomer
Education & KnowledgeJan 2

The Most Powerful Sonar in Nature

https://tube.blueben.net/w/gBajKcC7YthTpEPPSo3K5D

The Most Powerful Sonar in Nature

PeerTube