ReviewiScience2022
Toward understanding the communication in sperm whales.
Review in iScience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Applications of Machine Learning in Noninvasive Anemia Diagnosis: A Systematic Review Based on Cross-Industry Standard Process for Data Mining.Health science reports · 2026Review
- Backseat driver architecture to passively follow sperm whales by their voices with an autonomous underwater glider.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- TweetyBERT: Automated parsing of birdsong through self-supervised machine learning.Patterns (New York, N.Y.) · 2026Article
- Vocalization Characteristics of the Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphins (Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
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- Automatic detection and annotation of eastern Caribbean sperm whale codas.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Animal Welfare, Agency, and Animal-Computer Interaction.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Drone-based application of whale tags: A "tap-and-go" approach for scientific animal-borne investigations.PloS one · 2025Article
- Vowel- and Diphthong-Like Spectral Patterns in Sperm Whale Codas.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2025Article
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- Listen to Us: Perceptions of Animal Voice and Agency.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Evidence from sperm whale clans of symbolic marking in non-human cultures.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
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Abstract
Machine learning has been advancing dramatically over the past decade. Most strides are human-based applications due to the availability of large-scale datasets; however, opportunities are ripe to apply this technology to more deeply understand non-human communication. We detail a scientific roadmap for advancing the understanding of communication of whales that can be built further upon as a template to decipher other forms of animal and non-human communication. Sperm whales, with their highly developed neuroanatomical features, cognitive abilities, social structures, and discrete click-based encoding make for an excellent model for advanced tools that can be applied to other animals in the future. We outline the key elements required for the collection and processing of massive datasets, detecting basic communication units and language-like higher-level structures, and validating models through interactive playback experiments. The technological capabilities developed by such an undertaking hold potential for cross-applications in broader communities investigating non-human communication and behavioral research.
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