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This episode explores groundbreaking research into sperm whale communication and ongoing challenges for marine mammal conservation. It also covers a new AI platform for antibody design.

• Sperm whales off Dominica produce vowel-like patterns in codas, acoustically paralleling human vowels.

• Project CETI and UC Berkeley linguists identified a-codas and i-codas in 3,948 codas from 15 whales.

• The study in Proceedings of the Royal Society B suggests sperm whale codas are a close parallel to human phonology.

• NOAA Fisheries documented 263 humpback whale mortalities in an ongoing Unusual Mortality Event since 2016.

• 45% of 129 necropsied whales showed human interaction, primarily vessel strikes and fishing gear en ...