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Alien Says What?

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Decoding Whale Communication

The chapter explores breakthrough research on communicating with humpback whales, including a conversation with a whale that showed understanding of human messages. It discusses playback experiments and the exchange of contact calls between whales, shedding light on their social repertoire. The chapter also touches on the complexity of animal communication systems and the implications for understanding non-human intelligence.

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