Project CETI

The Listen to the Whales campaign created with @InsideNatGeo Impact Story Lab won the People’s Voice @TheWebbyAwards for Video & Film, in Science & Education! We are honored and look forward to continuing to Listen to the Whales together💙🐳projectceti.org/listen

Did you know that the first known whale, Pakicetus, walked on land? Learn more and trace the echoes through time, charting humanity’s understanding of whales, starting 50 million years ago with Pakicetus at projectceti.org/listen Photo: @AMNH /Carl Buell

“[The glider] is another way of having a delicate, not passive object recording, and listening, and peering into their world.” - CETI CEO and Founder @davidfgruber  Learn more in @therobotreport: bit.ly/49cebv9

“We extend ‘backseat driver’ capabilities...this allows fully autonomous control by the glider for tracking whales—a first for underwater gliders, like the Waymo of the underwater world.”-CETI Underwater Acoustics Lead @DiamantRoee  Read in @PopSci: bit.ly/4u9KZgo

@PopSci Great to see our research featured!🐳

“This technology opens an entirely new dimension to studying whales underwater in their natural environment.” trib.al/6GTmmEE

By: @DiamantRoee, Yeshayahu Pewzner, Guy Gubnitsky, @davidfgruber, Dan Tchernov, Laurent Beguery and Jeremy Sitbon.  Animation: Adrien Gentils

Major technological breakthrough: CETI’s autonomous underwater glider system is able to quietly follow sperm whales by listening to their voices, opening a new dimension for studying whales in their natural environment.   The paper in @SciReports: bit.ly/3P4rwPs

⭐️ @projectceti: New Paper! “The phonology of sperm whale coda vowels” shows whales produce vowel-like sounds organized in patterns, akin to human phonology. Learn more here: doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2…

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A sperm whale birth has been observed in unprecedented detail. Researchers report in @SciReports the most in‑depth observations yet of a wild cetacean birth, recorded off the coast of Dominica in 2023.

Happy #WorldBookDay! We are honored to be featured in Robert Macfarlane’s book, “Is a River Alive?” The book invites readers to reimagine our relationship with the more-than-human world. See more books that guide CETI’s work: bit.ly/4cC4hEa  📷: Arun Madisetti

@YahooNews @begusgasper Thank you for featuring our research!🐳

We may appear to have little in common with sperm whales – enormous, ocean-dwelling animals that last shared a common ancestor with humans more than 90 million years ago. But the whales’ vocalized communications are remarkably similar to our own, researchers have discovered. Not only do sperm whale 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. yahoo.com/news/articles/…

@Telegraph @begusgasper Thank you for featuring our latest discovery into sperm whale communication!🐳

The sounds made by sperm whales are “one of the closest parallels” in the animal kingdom to the language of humans, a study has found We break down further what this means here ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/1…

@Gizmodo @begusgasper Thank you for featuring our latest discovery into sperm whale communication!🐳

Sperm Whales Speak With a Complex Alphabet and Even Have ‘Vowels,’ Study Finds gizmodo.com/sperm-whales-s…

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Shocking: Scientists discover sperm whales are “talking” like humans New research suggests their click-based communication has a structure strikingly similar to human language, and scientists are now trying to decode and translate it.

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"Sperm whale coda vocalizations are thus highly complex and represent one of the closest parallels to human phonology of any analyzed animal communication system." 🐋💬 @ProjectCETI sciencealert.com/scientists-fou…

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Sperm whales, which make clicking sounds to communicate, use different “vowels” in ways similar to human speech spklr.io/6017EJULP

We’re one step closer to understanding the sperm whale ‘alphabet’. Read in @NatGeo by @rakemeny: bit.ly/48D0uoR Research by CETI scientists: @begusgasper, Maksymilian Dąbkowski, Ronald Sprouse, @davidfgruber, @sgero

Thank you @guardian and @olliemilman for this piece featuring our latest paper, “The phonology of sperm whale coda vowels.” By: @begusgasper, Maksymilian Dąbkowski, Ronald Sprouse, @davidfgruber, @sgero bit.ly/4dKeGjn

Animation: @MeghanFenske

CETI scientists led by CETI Linguistics Lead Gašper Beguš have revealed that not only do sperm whale vocalizations sound like human vowels, they also behave like them! Read: bit.ly/4dPrIfr   By: @begusgasper, Maksymilian Dąbkowski, Ronald Sprouse, @davidfgruber, @sgero