Bonus: Fred Sharpe and Laurance Doyle on exploring nonhuman intelligence

Can you imagine having a conversation with a humpback whale? A group of scientists conducted an experiment in which they broadcast recorded sounds and received responses from Twain — a humpback whale in Southeast Alaska. What is a playback experiment? How was it conducted? And how does observing humpback whales help in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence? Ilya Kolmanovsky talks to Fred Sharpe and Laurance Doyle — two of the authors of a paper describing this case. You may also listen to this episode in the closed Telegram channel of the Libo/Libo studio: https://cutt.ly/gol03botg