The Greeting: Yo-Yo Ma's Humpback Whale Experiment

Terrestrials

WNYC

Education For Kids, Storytelling, Education, Educational, Terrestrials, Pets & Animals, Radiolab, Kids, Kids & Family, Stem, Nature, Podcast, Fun, Science, Family-friendly, Children, Animals

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🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Can humans communicate with whales through music?

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0:00.0	Wait, you're listening.
0:01.6	Okay.
0:02.9	All right.
0:04.1	Okay.
0:05.5	All right.
0:07.0	You're listening to Radio Lab.
0:09.9	Flickin.
0:10.6	Radio Lab.
0:11.6	From W. N. Y.
0:13.7	C.
0:14.5	See?
0:14.9	Yeah.
0:19.5	Three, two, one.
0:22.3	Imagine your eyes grow the size of grapefruits.
0:27.1	And your heart grows to the size of a gorilla.
0:32.4	All of a sudden, your legs flatten into fins and form a tail.
0:38.1	And you can sing, hunting melodies that can travel for miles.
0:44.2	You have become a humpback whale.
0:51.5	Now is the part where I make you sing the theme song with me.
0:56.0	Terrestrials, Terrestrials, we are not the worst.
1:00.2	We are the bestrioles.
1:04.2	You got it.
	...

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