A team of scientists from the SETI Institute, University of California Davis and the Alaska Whale Foundation, had a close encounter with a non-human (aquatic) intelligence. The Whale-SETI team has been studying humpback whale communication systems in an effort to develop intelligence filters for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
I’ve started considering myself as member of a still young and rather foolish species and I think that is a much better approach than the old ‘god put humans here to rule the earth’ - I mean look where that got us.