How to Speak Whale - Mustill, Tom
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"What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill-the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak-asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication. "When a whale is in the water, it is like an iceberg: you only see a fraction of it and have no conception of its size." On September 12, 2015, Tom Mustill was paddling in a two-person kayak with a friend, just off the coast of California. It was cold, but idyllic-until a humpback whale breached, landing on top of them, releasing the…mehr

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"What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustill-the nature documentarian who went viral when a thirty ton humpback whale breached onto his kayak-asks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication. "When a whale is in the water, it is like an iceberg: you only see a fraction of it and have no conception of its size." On September 12, 2015, Tom Mustill was paddling in a two-person kayak with a friend, just off the coast of California. It was cold, but idyllic-until a humpback whale breached, landing on top of them, releasing the energy equivalent of forty hand grenades. He was certain he was about to die, but both he and his friend survived miraculously unscathed. In the interviews that followed the incident, Mustill was left with one question: What could this astonishing encounter teach us? Drawing from his experience as a naturalist and wildlife filmmaker, Mustill started investigating human-whale interactions around the world. When he met two tech entrepreneurs, who told him they wanted to use artificial intelligence (AI) to decode animal communication, Mustill embarked on a journey where big data meets big beasts, using animal eavesdropping technologies to train AI-originally designed to translate human languages-to discover patterns in the conversations of animals. There is a revolution taking place in biology, as the technologies we've developed to explore our own languages are turned to nature. From seventeenth-century Dutch inventors, to the whaling industry of the nineteenth century, to the cutting edge of Silicon Valley, How to Speak Whale looks at how scientists and start-ups around the world are decoding animal languages. Whales, with their giant mammalian brains, offer one of the most realistic opportunities for this to happen. But what would the consequences of such human-animal interaction be? We're about to find out"--
Autorenporträt
Tom Mustill is a biologist turned filmmaker and writer, specializing in stories where people and nature meet. His film collaborations, many with Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough, have received numerous international awards, including two Webbys, a BAFTA, and an Emmy nomination. They have been played at the UN, in Times Square, and on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury, and been shared by heads of state, the World Health Organization, and Guns N’ Roses. He lives in London with his wife, Annie; daughter, Stella; and the inhabitants of his small but surprisingly deep pond.
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'A rich exploration of some of the world's most astonishing creatures ... Mustill weaves a narrative that will expand your concept of language and deepen your understanding of the many ways there are to be alive. This is an extraordinary book that 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

'[An] extensively researched and energetic book... it is via the informed, far-reaching empathy of intermediaries such as Mustill that we stand our best chance of seeing into the non-human depths' New Statesman

'First-class ... Reasoned, entertaining, and fact-filled' Forbes

'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, Sunday Times bestselling 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

'Mind-blowing ... You will never feel closer to the magnificence of whales'
Lucy Jones, author of Losing Eden

'A scary, important and brilliant book ... If we do get to translate 'whale', will we like what they've got to say?'
Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan

'Mustill takes us farther, much farther, than Dr. Dolittle ever imagined' Carl Safina

'Riveting ... One of the most exciting and hopeful books I have read in ages' Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus

'Mustill conveys the richness of whale song and communication' Frans de Waal

'Lively and informative' Jonathan Slaght, author of Owls of the Eastern Ice

'Extraordinary' Christiana Figueres

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