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Good lord this article and others about it are terrible, here is the source text everything seems to be drawing from: https://peerj.com/articles/16349/ https:/

• JoBrad 3y ago
  > Here we report on a rare and opportunistic acoustic turn-taking with an adult female humpback whale, known as Twain, in Southeast Alaska. Post hoc acoustic and statistical analyses of a 20-min acoustic exchange between the broadcast of a recorded contact call, known as a ‘whup/throp’, with call responses by Twain revealed an intentional human-whale acoustic (and behavioral) interaction. Re-wording this in less-technical language, and including excerpts from the lead researchers didn’t make the article less informative, in my opinion.
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