The Ethics of Listening to Whales – A Conversation with James Bridle, Rebecca Giggs, César Rodríguez-Garavito and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
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The Ethics of Listening to Whales – A Conversation with James Bridle, Rebecca Giggs, César Rodríguez-Garavito and Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee
Saved by Annalie Taylor
Fully recognizing that non-human plants, animals and others have their own worlds which are fundamentally different and unknowable to us is to begin to end human exceptionalism and human supremacism.
It turned out that sperm whale communications were indeed not random or simplistic, but rather structured in a complex, combinatorial manner.
used algorithms to decode the “sperm whale phonetic alphabet,” revealing sophisticated structures in sperm whale communication akin to human phonetics and communication systems in other animal species.