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Melania’s Marine Mammal Mystery

Story of the Week with Joel Stein

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The Beluga Whale's Imitation of Human Voice

NOC sounded like a human, but it also sounds like a little bit of making fun of humans. He lived in a tank with other beluga whales and never made these sounds when it was just them. They don't know why NOC was trying to do this if, you know, he was trying to build connection or make fun of us or communicate with us. It was just this wild period of his life where he did his human voice for about seven years. And then he, I think, became sexually mature and stopped making the human voice. That's what guys do. The kazoo is going on! There's a lot of kazoo going on!"

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