In a joint five-year interdisciplinary research study with Harvard, MIT, Imperial College London, UC, Berkeley and City University of New York, marine scientists hope to decipher how sperm whales speak to each other and if the speech patterns can be replicated so humans can communicate with them.
At a recent press conference held in Dominica in the Caribbean, where the project will take place, researchers revealed plans for what they are calling the Cetacean Translation Initiative.