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\nFirst parrots and now whales?! Be careful what you say around beluga whales – they may say it back to you \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
It all started in 1984 at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego, CA.\u00a0 A captive whale named “NOC” lived there.\u00a0 People standing near the whale enclosure started hearing faint conversations, but they didn’t know where they were coming from.\u00a0 “You could hear there was a conversation, but you couldn’t make out what they were saying,” said Sam Ridgway, a creator of the U.S Navy Marine Mammal Program.<\/p>\n
Then a human diver thought someone was telling him to get out of the tank because he kept hearing the word “out”.\u00a0 “This was very rare, and a first for me,” Ridgway stated.\u00a0 “The speech-like sounds were several octaves lower in frequency than the whale’s usual sounds,” said Ridgway. His research is just now being released in the journal Current Biology.<\/p>\n
Later on the voices stopped.\u00a0 Researches believe that NOC stopped talking when he reached maturity.<\/p>\n
That is really interesting news that another mammal can mimic a humans voice.\u00a0 Maybe NOC just wanted a friend :).\u00a0 There are always more secrets to unlock in this world!<\/p>\n
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Peace & Love,<\/p>\n
Jon<\/p>\n
– The Good World News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"