{"id":142303,"date":"2022-07-16T18:04:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T23:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/a-race-to-converse-with-and-save-the-oceans-brainiest-eco-predators"},"modified":"2022-07-16T18:04:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T23:04:26","slug":"a-race-to-converse-with-and-save-the-oceans-brainiest-eco-predators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/a-race-to-converse-with-and-save-the-oceans-brainiest-eco-predators","title":{"rendered":"A race to converse with, and save, the ocean\u2019s brainiest eco-predators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-race-to-converse-with-and-save-the-oceans-brainiest-eco-predators.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the 2016 sci-fi movie \u201cArrival,\u201d a linguist and a theoretical physicist race against time to communicate with endangered extraterrestrial heptapods wishing to share their wisdom and technologies with the human race so it will survive and one day return the favor.<\/p>\n<p>At the University of California, Berkeley, a real and more down-to-earth mission to decode an unknown form of communication is underway. Linguist Gasper Begus and computer scientist Shafi Goldwasser are part of an international team of researchers attempting interspecies communication with <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sperm+whales\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sperm whales<\/a> by deciphering their deafening, 200-plus decibel clicking sounds, or codas.<\/p>\n<p>They are among the key members of the Cetacean Translation Initiative (CETI), a newly launched, five-year multidisciplinary project aimed at cracking <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/sperm\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sperm<\/a> whales\u2019 Morse code-like communications off the Caribbean island of Dominica, to gain a deeper knowledge of the ocean\u2019s brainiest predators and to preserve their habitat from further human disruption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 2016 sci-fi movie \u201cArrival,\u201d a linguist and a theoretical physicist race against time to communicate with endangered extraterrestrial heptapods wishing to share their wisdom and technologies with the human race so it will survive and one day return the favor. At the University of California, Berkeley, a real and more down-to-earth mission to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}