Wow, Speaking With Dolphins

Wired wrote To Talk With Aliens, Learn to Speak With Dolphins.

"At the Dolphin Institute in Hawaii, Louis Herman and his team taught dolphins hundreds of words using gestures and symbols. Dolphins, they found, could understand the difference between statements and questions, concepts like ‘none’ or ‘absent,’ and that changing word order changes the meaning of a sentence. Essentially, they get syntax."

"Herzing’s study is the first of its kind. No one has tried to establish two-way communication in the wild."

I don't know why they need the whole preface to communicating with aliens angle, it's impressive enough that we're talking with dolphins!