Story here. Hear him here. Sounds like my old roommate on a wild Saturday night. But I have a bad feeling about this. Isn’t this how they eventually ended up with Planet of the Apes?
i thought it sounded like the swedish chef at first
Maybe his keepers left the TV tuned to the Muppets.
No.
Well, that’s a relief.
No!
Planet of the Apes came about because humans were abusing them for being bad hairdressers.
The worst I can see with whales is having to negotiate with them on fishing rights. Things would get even more complicated if dolphins start making claims.
Maybe we could use some whales to patrol beaches and shout “Look out! Shark!” if needed.
The new frontier for off-shoring call center operations. They get paid in fish!
What language was that? Apparently not english.
It sounds like this guy.
I can’t hear the video yet, but this raises interesting questions. If the whale -should become- capable of asking a diver to “get out” of his tank, would the request be respected? what if he could ask to be returned to the sea?
I’ll name that tune in 300.
This will be helpful when the whale probe shows up in a few hundred years.
Looked to me like it came in the mid-seventies.
Yes - in much the same way that the 6’6", 300-lb guy who asks you to get off his lawn is respected.
Listening to that, I kept thinking of the creepy violin music from Young Frankenstein.
It’s not the first time that a captive animal was heard to mimic human speech. Anybody rememberHooverthe harbor seal?
The keeper would probably ask him how he is going to get lunch in that little tank.
Did anyone notice that the story, while new, is describing ancient events? That whale died 5 years ago at age 30, and the human-like vocalizations apparently occurred over four years early in the whale’s life.
So why is this story coming out just now?
I can’t find anything online, but many years ago there was a [BBC Radio 1] DJ who had a jingle of someone saying “lemonade!” which was allegedly a dolphin.