December 12, 2023, Mountain View, CA -- A team of scientists from the SETI Institute, University of California Davis and the Alaska Whale Foundation, had a close encounter with a non-human (aquatic) intelligence. The Whale-SETI team has been studying humpback whale communication systems in an effort to develop intelligence filters for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    In response to a recorded humpback ‘contact’ call played into the sea via an underwater speaker, a humpback whale named Twain approached and circled the team’s boat, while responding in a conversational style to the whale ‘greeting signal.’ During the 20-minute exchange, Twain responded to each playback call and matched the interval variations between each signal.

    CETI is such a cool project. I wonder how far they’ll be able to get with it.

  • angrystego@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’m very happy there’s this kind of serious animal language research. I’m wondering, whether SETI is also interested in parrots or elephants.