A beluga whale living with dolphins learned to "speak their language"

A beluga whale, living in captivity with a pod of bottlenose dolphins, learned to communicate using the sounds unique to dolphins. Detailed in a new study published in the journal Animal Cognition, the extraordinary inter-species communication breakthrough demonstrates the well-documented ability of beluga whales to accurately imitate sounds of other species. This mimicry extends even to humans, as was the case with Noc, the beluga whale studied by the US Navy in the 1970s who was observed making...

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