In a study performed at Marineland, an aquatic theme park in France, scientists observed a captive killer whale mimicking human sounds.

Dolphins, porpoises, killer whales, sperm whales and other toothed whales produce an array of sounds - to find prey employing a sonar-like system called echolocation and to communicate with other ...

While killer whales are used to high-pitched howls, clicks and trills, Wikie and Moana could imitate human words with, in some cases, astounding clarity.

False killer whales, cousins to dolphins, can focus their echolocation sounds much as the human eyeball focuses to bring an object into the sharpest view.

This is the first time pack-ice killer whale vocalizations have been recorded. Pack-ice killer whales are highly social creatures, communicating through various vocalizations like pulsed calls and ...

Here we use a do-as-I-do paradigm to study the abilities of a killer whale to imitate novel sounds uttered by conspecific (vocal imitative learning) and human models (vocal mimicry).

Ready for sketch comedy she’s not. But a 14-year-old killer whale named Wikie has shown promise in mimicking strange sounds, such as a human “hello” — plus some rude noises. Scientists ...

A 14-year-old orca whale named Wilkie has learned how to “speak” to humans. Wilkie, who lives at a whale aquarium in France, was able to imitate a human saying “hello,” “bye bye” and ...

In what they call a world first, researchers in Europe say they've taught an orca whale to successfully imitate a variety of sounds, including calls made by other animal species and even spoken ...

Quiet Sound announces the official launch of its initiatives to reduce noise and physical impacts to endangered Southern Resident killer whales.