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Re:Orcas can imitate human speech, research reveals by gadders on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @10:18AM (#16274462)
Seals can do this too [1]. Worth clicking on the link to hear the strong New England accent that Hoover the Seal had.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_(seal)

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Re:Orcas can imitate human speech, research reveals by robocat on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @05:16PM (#16278051)
Wikipedia audio:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mgm_Hoover_the_talking_...

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Re:Orcas can imitate human speech, research reveals by 2muchcoffeeman on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @10:44AM (#16274685)
I YouTubed this. The speech is surprisingly clear and sounds human.
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Re:Orcas can imitate human speech, research reveals by gadders on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @11:08AM (#16274875)
He was a pretty good mimic. I just watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfqiEGYEQoQ and you have to watch the seal to make sure that is him talking and not the crowd.
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Re:Orcas can imitate human speech, research reveals by knownothing on Wednesday January 31, 2018 @12:43PM (#16275734)
Interesting. If I was a sailor hundreds of years ago and witnessed something like that I might think it was a merman.
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