Scientists Contact Whales in World-First Communication Experiment
What do whale experts and alien hunters have in common? More than you might expect.
For a recent study published in the peer-reviewed journal PeerJ, scientists from UC Davis, the Alaska Whale Foundation, and SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) teamed up.
Their mission: Communicate with whales. And they did just that.
In a landmark experiment, the team had a 20-minute conversation with a humpback whale named Twain in her own language.
Twain and the scientists didn't talk about the weather or the latest fish gossip — we're still a long way from that level of understanding.
What did happen, though, was remarkable.