TALKING ANIMALS
First Ever Chat with a Humpback Whale?
In August 2021 off the coast of Alaska, researchers had what may have been The team included scientists who study whales, as well as one astronomer who works at the SETI Institute in Northern California. (SETI is short for the “Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence,” aka aliens.) The idea is that learning to communicate with whales could make it easier to talk to extraterrestrials—if we ever encounter any of their talk. That’s because whales are so different from us, they may as well be from another planet.