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.
From seventeenth-century Dutch inventors, to the whaling industry of the nineteenth century, to the cutting edge of Silicon Valley, “How to Speak Whale” examines how scientists and start-ups around the world are decoding animal communications. Whales, with their giant mammalian brains, virtuoso voices, and long, highly social lives, offer one of the most realistic opportunities for this to happen.
