An experiment by the SETI institute suggests humans might one day be able to speak to aliens, or, barring that (if you assume they don’t exist), can communicate with non-humans. That hope comes from the ability of researchers to communicate with a female humpback whale they say was the first of its kind.
Dr. Brenda McCowan, of U.C. Davis, a lead scientist on the project, said of the breakthrough, “We believe this is the first such communicative exchange between humans and humpback whales in the humpback ‘language.”