Speaking Whale

Published: Jan. 26, 2023, 12:55 a.m.

b"Tom Mustill is a conservation biologist and he makes beautiful films about where nature and people meet. He\\u2019s worked with Greta Thunberg and David Attenborough, he\\u2019s been shat on by bats in Mexico, and recently he finished a book called How to Speak Whale.\\xa0 It describes the very real possibility that someday, maybe even in my lifetime, we\\u2019ll begin to understand the complex language of whales--and all this would imply.\\n\\nI interviewed Tom for hours and I didn't want him to stop until he\\u2019d told me every last thing he\\u2019s learned about whale behavior and every story he could remember. He was polite about it. I don\\u2019t know why I felt this insatiable need to hear every story. Maybe it seems that if we could understand whale culture a little bit, everything would make a little more sense? Anyway I recorded Tom for as long as he'd let me."