{"id":26216,"date":"2018-01-31T01:01:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T00:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/01\/31\/orcas-can-imitate-human-speech-research-reveals\/"},"modified":"2018-01-31T01:01:12","modified_gmt":"2018-01-31T00:01:12","slug":"orcas-can-imitate-human-speech-research-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=26216","title":{"rendered":"Orcas can imitate human speech, research reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Killer whales able to copy words such as \u201chello\u201d and \u201cbye bye\u201d as well as sounds from other orcas, study showsHigh-pitched, eerie and yet distinct, the sound of a voice calling the name \u201cAmy\u201d is unmistakable. But this isn\u2019t a human cry \u2013 it\u2019s the voice of a killer whale called Wikie.New research reveals that orcas are able to imitate human speech, in some cases at the first attempt, saying words such as \u201chello\u201d, \u201cone, two\u201d and \u201cbye bye\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2018\/jan\/31\/orcas-killer-whales-can-imitate-human-speech-research-reveals\" target=\"_blank\">Orcas can imitate human speech, research reveals<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Killer whales able to copy words such as \u201chello\u201d and \u201cbye bye\u201d as well as sounds from other orcas, study showsHigh-pitched, eerie and yet distinct, the sound of a voice calling the name \u201cAmy\u201d is unmistakable. But this isn\u2019t a human cry \u2013 it\u2019s the voice of a killer whale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}