"Whale-SETI: Scientists Achieve Groundbreaking Communication with Humpback Whales, Paving the Way for Alien Contact"
TL;DR
Scientists from the SETI Institute have reported what may be the first conversation between humans and humpback whales in the whales' own language. The conversation took place off the coast of Alaska, where a humpback whale named Twain approached and circled the researchers' boat, responding in a conversational style to a recorded humpback 'contact' call played into the sea. This research aims to explore interspecies communication and develop filters to apply to potential extraterrestrial signals. The findings were published in the science journal PeerJ.
Topics:sciencescience-and-technology#extraterrestrial-intelligence#humpback-whales#interspecies-communication#language#science-and-technology#seti-institute
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