A Japanese scientist affirms that he has taught “to speak” to a whale beluga using sounds to identify three different objects. This way, Nack, a whale of the Kamogawa aquarium Is World near Tokyo, emits a short and acute sound when it sees a fin, one acute length and when it sees glasses and one short and burdens when it sees a bucket. The whale chooses the correct object correctly when the three sounds reproduce to him.

The professor of the University of Tokai Tsukasa Murayama began to train the marine mammal because it was not satisfied with the signals manuals that at the moment are used to communicate with the dolphins and whales.

“I have always wanted to speak with the whales, and while it thought more and more about it, I realized of which they communicated through sound”, she declared. For that reason, it thought that it could train them to name certain objects using sounds that already realise.

Murayama said that it hoped a day to train the whales so that they expressed his feelings so that the humans could understand them. “He would be magnificent if they could say to us not only what it likes or what no, but its desires, if they are hungry or it pricks the back to him. So the next step would be to teach a ampler rank to them of vocabulary”, it added.

However, to extend the communication, Murayama it said that the humans will have to use a special equipment to produce and to detect the ultrasounds. “At the moment, we only used limited, audible sounds for us. But the whales communicate better through ultrasounds than of audible sounds for the humans, especially under the water”, it explained.

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