Sperm Whales Clicking You Inside Out — James Nestor at The Interval

Legitimately the most interesting thing I've watched tonight.

Did you measure 236dB sound pressure level with your cam's hydrophone?

Humans are just so self-involved. We live amongst aliens…we just can’t understand each others’ languages.

This is absolutely incredible !!

Leave the whales alone. 1.5 million penguins only seen from space - leave them be.

Whales are super smart. We just got ahead because we have hands and live outside water where fire is possible. Hands and fire got us ahead. Not our intellect.

okey, but can I pet them?

Humans: " We invented internet and all message applications and can communicate around the world with everyboody!"

Sperm Whale: "hold my beer!"

White people are brave as fuck

Aphex Twin is part human part sperm whale.

Sperm Whales are so metal

I never liked their name

Nobody:
The class after hearing the word sketchy: 😂

By "could be more sophisticated than human language" I hope he means acoustically, right?

So interisting.

Wow!!? I’ve never seen this ,, very fascinating! It’s amazing that the clicks have that much of a effect/affect, whatever on our bodies etc?! It’s awesome to think that land animals aren’t the only ones with social skills & the need for interaction with others!!? This is why we need to stop destroying and killing everything we touch as humans ,, along the way we got more destructive with nature, it’s sad 😞

I watched this for the 10th time and I’m still I. Awe over these amazing creatures <3

Who else learned this on Wild Krats 😎

First 40 seconds was terrifying

These beings put the SETI in parmacetti.

Elephants communicate with each other over long distances with tall standing waves that are below human hearing. I wonder how these sharp rapports are better suited to travel through water. Also the divers got cooked like a hot dog does in a microwave. That energy excited the water in their bodies. Really fascinating stuff.

My whale is beached now 😂😂

Don't know where this guy got the idea that "great apes" don't feel love or compassion, but he's dead wrong.

“One of the most sophisticated forms of communication we’ve discovered on the planet. Could be more sophisticated than human language” ....are yall processing what that means??!! holy shit.

shame evolution didnt give them arms huh

Jesus Christ loves you all so very much!!!

If their hearing is also super sensitive, how is it they don’t hurt themselves and other whales near them?

Guy who discovered these whales let his son name his first animal

It was also the last animal he named

That clicking also attracts prey.

Could sperm whales over take us if they could walk and moved just as well
As us on land?

Scuba is too loud!?

Those whales can cause hemorrhage in the brains of those divers.

Me when I sleep

15miiiiiiiiillion years hmmm... How many years ago did a man or woman claim to discover this? Maybe 30years at best? And what I discovered is that man also lies alot,, especially when making money is the agenda for most discoveries. I believe those whales brains are complex but I don't believe everything man tells me. Especially a man who compares humans to "great apes" as if I or he evolved from an ape. Question everything. Very cool whales I would love to swim with them like this.

Thinking about some of the human languages that utilize clicking sounds.....and the human evolution of speech....

Great information, cool video thanks!

Just finished Moby Dick today so this is much appreciated.

Whales so sensitive. And we just noise all over the planet. Thats why they confuse and die

Sperm Whale: “Hello, how are you? You are a strange creature, but seem friendly. Would you like to be my friend?”

Human: “DEAR GOD, MY INSIDES ARE BURNING!! SOMEONE HELP ME PLEASE!! THE NOISE IS TOO LOUD!”

The most sophisticated forms of animals but we humans still kill and hunt them. This makes me so sad. The most cruel beings on this planet are humans.

Fungus

We should learn to communicate with them before any Aliens if there's any.

You would think that if they were as intelligent as us, they would kill us, on sight, if possible. They have every reason to do so. I don't know how their intelligence compares, but they are at least six times more compassionate and tolerant than us.

So a sperm whale basically has the powers of black bolt

No way they have advanced language - cause it's big need which allows evolution to create it. In case of humans it was: making tools, group hunting, preventing wars on resources(ie tools or houses) and making a firm social structure. Advanced communication is needed every day, that's why human infants spend a large part of they life in schools, to unify language and knowledge, to built next levels of language and knowledge upon lower levels and so on - that's how advancement arises. The language without unifying and precise defining(which often requires tools) would be just a calling each other by names at best.

Straight out of a horror movie! Sounds like every creaky door or creepy rocking chair that when you turn it around no one is sitting in it...

I'm swinging if I had to hear that sound all day. I don't care if that thing weighs a hundred tons.

More please

these beauties have i think over 100 gallons of 'Acoustically Pure" oil in their brains that WE used to burn and Illuminate OUR Lives with, ......

apparently the clicks can heat up the surrounding water