"I think it's another humbling moment that we're not the only species with rich, communicative, communal and cultural lives," said David Gruber, founder and president of Project CETI. "These whales could be passing information along generation to generation to generation for over 20 million years. Humans now are just having the right tools and desire to be able to look at whale voices in this way to see the complexity that has been there all along."

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A "humbling" research finding: Sperm whales communicate surprisingly like us

Their vocalizations have “close parallels in the phonetics and phonology of human languages."

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