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The researchers placed an underwater speaker in the sea and played a recorded humpback ''contact call'' to which a humpback whale named Twain approached and circled their boats.
In the same way that scientists have studied Antarctica for what insights could prove valuable for a Mars mission, the Whale-SETI group said its studies with humpback whales can help them develop “intelligence filters” used in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
Extra-terrestrial alien-hunters have teamed up with cetacean scientists to conduct what they say was the world’s first conversation in "whale" between humans