HOW TO SPEAK WHALE EB
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HOW TO SPEAK WHALE EB

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HOW TO SPEAK WHALE EB

About this book

'Fascinating' Greta Thunberg

'Extraordinary' Merlin Sheldrake

'A must-read' New Scientist

'Enthralling' George Monbiot

'Brilliant' Philip Hoare

Wildlife filmmaker Tom Mustill had always liked whales. But when one breached onto his kayak, nearly killing him, he became obsessed.

This book traces his extraordinary investigation into the deep ocean and the cutting-edge science of animal translation.

What would it take to speak with a whale? Are we ready for what they might say?

MORE PRAISE FOR HOW TO SPEAK WHALE

'One of the most exciting and hopeful books I have read in ages' SY MONTGOMERY, AUTHOR OF THE SOUL OF AN OCTOPUS

'A narrative that will expand your concept of language and deepen your understanding of the many ways there are to be alive … It left me inspired' MERLIN SHELDRAKE, AUTHOR OF ENTANGLED LIFE

'A must-read … a hugely engaging personal story of a journey into the future of human-animal communication facilitated by delving into its past' NEW SCIENTIST

'Fascinating and deeply humane' GRETA THUNBERG

'A rich, enthralling, brilliant book that opens our eyes and ears to worlds we can scarcely imagine' GEORGE MONBIOT, AUTHOR OF REGENESIS

'Tantalizing … Think how transformative it would be if we could chat with whales about their love lives or their sorrows or their thoughts on the philosophy of language' ELIZABETH KOLBERT, NEW YORKER

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Dedication
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction Van Leeuwenhoek Decides to Look (New tools plus inquisitive humans equals unexpected discovery)
  6. 1 Enter, Pursued by a Whale (The twenty-first-century revolution in cetacean biology, and how I joined it)
  7. 2 A Song in the Ocean (How we saved the whales by decoding them)
  8. 3 The Law of the Tongue (Different species already communicate)
  9. 4 The Joy of Whales (Do cetaceans have the tools to talk and listen?)
  10. 5 “Some Sort of Stupid, Big Fish” (What Can Whale Brains Tell Us About Their Minds?)
  11. 6 The Search for Animal Language (Let’s avoid the word “language”)
  12. 7 Deep Minds: Cetacean Culture Club (How dolphin behaviors suggest they’re worth trying to chat to)
  13. 8 The Sea Has Ears (Robots can record whale communications we never could before)
  14. 9 Animalgorithms (How we can train machines to find patterns in cetacean communications)
  15. 10 Machines of Loving Grace (Google Translate for whales)
  16. 11 Anthropodenial (Humans Underestimate Other Animals . . . and Why It Matters)
  17. 12 Dances with Whales (It’s time to find out if we can speak whale)
  18. Acknowledgments
  19. Notes
  20. Index
  21. About the Author
  22. About the Publisher