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Quotes from Deep dive — James Nestor

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It's going to a lot harder to kill an animal that's able to speak its name.

Deep dive (2017)

They're able to see better with sounds than we are able to see with our eyes.

Deep dive (2017)

I swam with these animals about 4 years ago. Some friends and I had heard that off the coast of Sri Lanka these huge congregations of sperm whales would gather in March and April.

Deep dive (2017)

These animals came up to us, welcomed us into their pods and started showering us with these clicks.

Deep dive (2017)

Inside of these clicks is encoded information... a secret language...

Deep dive (2017)

I found out later that these clicks are actually used for communication. These animals also use them to see in the deep ocean. ...It's a form of sonar called echolocation.

Deep dive (2017)

The sperm whale's brain is about 6 times the size of ours... They've had it for 15 million year longer... We've had our current size brain around 200,000 years.

Deep dive (2017)

He had a dolphin telephone... and he would listen in as these dolphins would have these very complex conversations...

Deep dive (2017)

Back in the 60s... John Lilly had a lab... dedicated to solving the dolphin communication problem...

Deep dive (2017)

But they could not crack the communication code. To do that you have to get below the surface. You have to see these animals... to gauge their behavior.

Deep dive (2017)

He... had dolphin English language immersion workshops... where... an intern [would] grant dolphins sexual favors if they learned English words, and this... worked.

Deep dive (2017)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Nestor (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.