Plants have been listening to us this whole time
Inquiring Minds
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Is There a Google Translate Option for Sperm Whales?
Sperm whales communicate in this very cool Morse code like signaling to, which gives rise to the hypothesis that it could be some kind of code. But I don't think we're going to have a Google Translate option for East African elephant or Southern Australian dolphin or sperm whale-ish anytime soon. All of the human assumptions we have about language have to be discarded. And that means it's incredibly difficult to start to decipher these sounds.
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