Wikie, a 16-year-old female orca living in a French marine theme park named, Marineland of Antibes, is able to copy words such as ‘hello’, ‘bye bye’ and ‘Amy’, as well as count to three.

The killer whale was able to mimic the duration and pitch of human speech, coming close on three words to a ‘high-quality match.

The research team is trying to sell this as an amazing thing, which it is, but it is not normal for orcas to speech human language therefore it is cruel to force them too.

Although the researchers did not set out to test Wikie’s communication skills, the scientist who led the study believes basic ‘conversations’ with her may one day be possible.

Dr Jose Abramson, from Complutense de Madrid University in Spain, said, ‘Yes, it’s conceivable … if you have labels, descriptions of what things are.

‘It has been done before with a famous grey parrot and dolphins using American sign language – sentences like ‘bring me this object’ or ‘put this object above or below the other’.”

Yes, this is a breakthrough in finding out how intelligent these animals can be but at the same time there has to be danger in teaching Wikie this.

 In nature, orcas have developed their own sophisticated communication skills with distinctive calls and whistles, and each orca pod has its own unique dialect. According to one green plant’s article, we know that an orca’s offspring learns by mimicking its mother and other pod members.

Orcas have evolved into a complex culture, and the most experienced orcas in the pod pass their tremendous knowledge to the next generation. A mother will teach her offspring to communicate, forage, navigate, and many other skills.

One thing, however, is certain: An orca will not teach her offspring how to say “hello” in the language of humans.

Teaching any orca to speak in the language of humans ruins any possible chance for them to be rehbibated into the wild. Wikie has spent all her sixteen years of life in a tank and never the wild and teaching her “ tricks” lowers her chance to be set free.

Researchers are forcing our language on this orca instead of trying to understand her voice and natural vocials.

Wikie, speaking our language is just befinting the enteriment industry and putting more money in companies pockets instead of actually pushing forward to rehabitated orcas.