Listen to these Orca whales imitate human speech
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Listen to these Orca whales imitate human speech
As part of the trial, the killer whale was asked to mimic never-before-heard sounds made by other orcas with different dialects from different family groups. Then, she was made to repeat human words. In recordings of the experiment, Wikie takes several stabs at "hello". Every time, she voices two syllables with something resembling an "l" in ...
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