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Decoder Combinator Eavesdrop

The Combinator

Sperm whale · Four dials. You produce a coda. The site tells you whether a whale ever said it.

Rhythm

regular

Tempo

5.0 Hz

Rubato

off

tempo varies within coda

Ornamentation

off

extra final click

This is combinatorial language production. You did what a sperm whale does.

Source: Sharma, P., Gero, S., Payne, R. et al. (2024). Contextual and combinatorial structure in sperm whale vocalisations. Nature Communications 15:3617.

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