To The Best Of Our Knowledge

Listening to Whales


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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 AISearching for a whale alphabetGiving a voice to the whale ancestorsRoger Payne touches a whale

Guests:
Shane Gero, Carl Zimmer, Mere Takoko


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