It happened just a few weeks ago in the waters of the Pacific: scientists from the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence Institute (well known to fans of television series on UFOs), the University of California and the Alaska Whale Foundation, succeeded for the first time to talk to a humpback whale (called Twain) by sending it a series of greeting signals to which the cetacean responded. The sensation was clearly that of having aroused interest and even frenzy in the interlocutor. The researchers managed to establish a line of communication with the humpback whale (Megaptera Novaeangliae) for 20 minutes, sending a sequence of "non-human" sounds, real greetings, through an underwater speaker. We are talking about an extremely intelligent cetacean, it has complex social systems and communicates both with songs and calls. Twain approached the boat by going around it and responding to the sound stimuli by replicating the signals and the different intervals between each signal produced by the boat. This clear voluntary activity highlights that the animal was listening and responding, showing interest: this was the first chat in history between humans and humpback whales in humpback language.

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