Hoover the talking seal

Curr Biol. 2023 Jan 23;33(2):R50-R52. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2022.12.023.

¹ Comparative Bioacoustics Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands. Electronic address: diandra.duengen@mpi.nl.
² Department of Behavioral and Cognitive Biology, and Vienna CogSciHub, University of Vienna, Vienna 1090, Austria. Electronic address: tecumseh.fitch@univie.ac.at.
³ Comparative Bioacoustics Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Center for Music in the Brain, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark. Electronic address: andrea.ravignani@mpi.nl.

Abstract

Diandra Duengen and colleagues introduce Hoover, a male harbor seal famous for his imitation of human speech.