Just say'in..

It's so completely responsive, communicative.

The little whale is absolutely fascinating. It's so quick, so clever. It acts completely playful.

Won't be able to forget it for a long time.

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...and extremely focused, too, with such a nuanced reaction to those kids.

Do you think he was mimicking behavior learned from humans on the other side of the glass?

He does come in right around eye-level with them, too. Very, very interesting.

Where are those bratty kids parents. No respect.

about them, to become aware there are actual beings living in the same world they infest.

Maybe as they get older memories of the beautiful immediacy and consciousness they saw in the whale will finally register with them on a conscious level, and deepen them.