Meet Wikie - The World’s First Talking Killer Whale

Meet Wikie, the world’s first talking killer whale, who can say words like ’hello’ and ’bye bye’. Wikie is a 14 year old female Orca or Killer Whale, and lives in captivity at Marineland in Antibes, France. Scientists say they have recorded Wikie repeating the words - hello, bye bye, counting up to three, and even saying the name of her trainer ‘Amy.’ Six judges rated whether the vocalisation matched the original word or noise, plus the whale words were also analysed in waveform, and matched the human wo