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Listening to Whales

2024/8/24
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What can we learn from whales – and whales from us? Technology like AI is fueling new scientific breakthroughs in whale communication that can help us better understand the natural world. And, there’s an international effort to give whales a voice by granting them personhood.

Special thanks to Ocean Alliance and whale.org) for some of the whale recordings heard on this episode.

Original Air Date: August 24, 2024

**Interviews In This Hour: **Translating whale, with the help of AI) — Searching for a whale alphabet) — Giving a voice to the whale ancestors) — Roger Payne touches a whale)

**Guests: **Shane Gero), Carl Zimmer), Mere Takoko)

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