DOI: 10.5061/dryad.ht76hdrn0
title: Data from: Interactive bioacoustic playback as a tool for detecting and exploring nonhuman intelligence: “Conversing” with an Alaskan humpback whale

description: Here we report on a rare and opportunistic acoustic turn-taking with an
 adult female humpback whale, known as Twain, in Southeast Alaska. Post hoc
 acoustic and statistical analyses of a 20-minute acoustic exchange between
 the broadcast of a recorded contact call, known as a ’whup/throp’, with
 call responses by Twain revealed an intentional human-whale acoustic (and
 behavioral) interaction. Our results show that Twain participated both
 physically and acoustically in three phases of interaction (Phase 1:
 Engagement, Phase 2: Agitation, Phase 3: Disengagement),
 independently determined by blind observers reporting on surface behavior
 and respiratory activity of the interacting whale. A close examination of
 both changes to the latency between Twain’s calls and the temporal
 matching to the latency of the exemplar across phases indicated that Twain
 was actively engaged in the exchange during Phase 1 (Engagement), less so
 during Phase 2 (Agitation), and disengaged during Phase 3 (Disengagement).
 These results, while preliminary, point to several   for
 effective playback design, namely the importance of salient, dynamic and
 adaptive playbacks, that should be utilized in experimentation with whales
 and other interactive nonhuman species.
description: ## Supplementary Materials 1. Title of Dataset: Interactive Bioacoustic
 Playback as a Tool for Detecting and Exploring Nonhuman Intelligence:
 “Conversing” with an Alaskan Humpback Whale 2. Author Information A.
 Principal Investigator Contact Information Name: Laurance Doyle
 Institution: SETI Institute Address: Mountain View, CA Email:
 ldoyle@seti.org <br> B. Associate or Co-investigator Contact
 Information Name: Brenda McCowan Institution: University of California,
 Davis Address: Davis, CA Email: bjmccowan@ucdavis.edu 3. Date of data
 collection (single date, range, approximate date): August 2021 4.
 Geographic location of data collection: Southeast Alaska, US 5.
 Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the
 data: Templeton World Charity Foundation Diverse Intelligences grants
 TWCF0311 and TWCF0440 (P.I. L. Doyle) ## Description of the data and file
 structure (1) Video/hydrophone recordings: (A) Twain Align Video Hydro
 A.MP4: Video camera recording aligned with Hydrophone A (B) Twain Video
 Align Hydro B.MP4 : Video camera recording aligned with Hydrophone B (2)
 Whup wav files: ``` (A) Day1PrePeriodWhup1.wav - Day1PrePeriodWhup6.wav:
 Whups recorded on Day 1 (B) Day2DuringPeriodWhupExemplarPlayback.wav: Whup
 from Day 1 used on Day 2 as playback exemplar as recorded on Day 2 ``` (3)
 EquipmentSpecifications.pdf: Description of equipment used and their
 specifications (4) Figs.S1S2.WhupSpectrograms.pdf: Spectrograms of whups
 recorded and used in interaction/exchange (5) TimelineOfInteraction.pdf:
 Complete timeline of interaction/exchange with Twain: Variables: Time:
 time of day Exemplars: sequence of exemplars (playback stimuli) Twain
 Responses: sequence of Twain calls Counter Call (Y/N): counter call (Y) or
 not (N) (6) DataFiles.xlsx: Data files (consisting of four tabs) used in
 the analyses in the publication ``` Twain Latency Data Variables: type =
 call sequence latency = inter-call interval between Twain's calls
 (sec) cc = counter call (1) or not (0) phase = phase of interaction day =
 day of recording E-T and T-E Latency Match Data Variables: Pair = call
 exchange order Type = E-T or T-E match order Match = whether pair was a
 match according to ratio criterion Phase = phase of interaction Difference
 ratio = difference between ratios Difference = difference between ratios x
 100 Twain Amp Data Variables: type: call sequence amp: amplitude of call
 (dB) phase: phase of interaction Twain6.csv for R (data for randomizations
 used with RCode.pdf Variables: latency = inter-call interval between
 Twain's calls (sec) typeC = counter call (1) or not (0) ``` (7)
 Fig.S3.SupplemetaryLatencyAnalysis.pdf: Graph of supplementary latency
 analysis ## Sharing/Access information 1. Licenses/restrictions placed on
 the data: CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain 2. Links to
 publications that cite or use the data: McCowan B, Hubbard J, Walker L,
 Sharpe F, Frediani J, Doyle L (2023). Interactive Bioacoustic Playback as
 a Tool for Detecting and Exploring Nonhuman Intelligence: “Conversing”
 with an Alaskan Humpback Whale. bioRxiv 2023.02.05.527130; doi:
 https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.02.05.527130 McCowan B, Hubbard J, Walker L,
 Sharpe F, Frediani J, Doyle L (2023). Interactive Bioacoustic Playback as
 a Tool for Detecting and Exploring Nonhuman Intelligence: “Conversing”
 with an Alaskan Humpback Whale. Peer J. 3. Links to other publicly
 accessible locations of the data: None 4. Links/relationships to ancillary
 data sets: None 5. Was data derived from another source? No A. If yes,
 list source(s): NA 6. Recommended citation for this dataset: McCowan B,
 Hubbard J, Walker L, Sharpe F, Frediani J, Doyle L (2023). Interactive
 Bioacoustic Playback as a Tool for Detecting and Exploring Nonhuman
 Intelligence: “Conversing” with an Alaskan Humpback Whale [Dataset]. Dryad
 Digital Repository. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.ht76hdrn0 7. Access via
 Dryad: All files are available on Dryad except the following which are
 available on Zenodo: * Twain Align Video Hydro A.MP4 * Twain Video Align
 Hydro B.MP4 * TimelineOfInteraction.pdf * Figs.S1S2.WhupSpectrograms.pdf *
 Fig.S3.SupplementaryLatencyAnalysis.pdf * RCode.pdf * StataCode.pdf ##
 Code/Software (1) RCode.pdf: R code for randomizations conducted in Fig. 3
 saved in PDF file. (2) StataCode.pdf: Stata code for statistical analyses
 in Figs. 3 and 4 saved in PDF file. <br>