Dr. Roger Payne was given a recording of these sounds from the waters of the Bahamas. When he proved that whales were singing, it made the front cover of science. As a conservationist, I am compelled by Roger's logic. Would we feel challenged by what we learned? How should we safeguard the power that this new knowledge would give us and not use it to manipulate and exploit?
Alexandra Horowitz takes us inside the mind of a puppy. James Bridle introduces us to slime mold that can outwit the best human engineers. Justin Gregg makes the case that thinking like an animal is the key to living a good life. And Tom Mustill explains how a near-death encounter with a 30-ton whale led him to the scientists who are building Google Translate for animal languages.
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