listen to ‘Beluga mimicking human speech’ on Audioboo Listen to this recording. It sounds like a drunkard playing a kazoo, but it’s actually the call of a beluga (a white whale) called NOC.

The Story of One Whale Who Tried to Bridge the Linguistic Divide Between Animals and Humans While captive in a Navy program, a beluga whale named Noc began to mimic human speech.

Listen to Noc the Beluga whale warbling in a human voice, several octaves lower than typical whale calls. The National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego first made the discovery in 1984 when ...

NOC was a beluga whale living at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego, California. He had been with the foundation for seven years when researchers started to think that they were ...

A male Beluga whale -- the so-called "canaries of the sea" -- was able to mimic human speech. A male ... belugas are actually among the smallest species of whales. Amazing Noc.

The special whale in question, NOC, was a beluga who lived at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in California. In 1984, workers noticed bizarre, human-like sounds coming from an enclosure.