Data from: Interactive bioacoustic playback as a tool for detecting and exploring nonhuman intelligence: “Conversing” with an Alaskan humpback whale ...

• Main Authors: McCowan, Brenda, Hubbard, Josephine, Walker, Lisa, Sharpe, Fred, Frediani, Jodi, Doyle, Laurance
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2023
• Subjects: FOS Natural sciences; communication; bioacoustic playback; Turn-taking; vocal matching; humpback whale; Charity; Doyle; Humpback Whale; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ht76hdrn0; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.ht76hdrn0

Here we report on a rare and opportunistic acoustic turn-taking with an adult female humpback whale, known as Twain, in Southeast Alaska. Post hoc acoustic and statistical analyses of a 20-minute acoustic exchange between the broadcast of a recorded contact call, known as a ’whup/throp’, with call r...