TOM MUSTILL How to Speak Whale

Sabemos realmente muy poco sobre la vida de las ballenas, pero la ciencia cada vez está más cerca de descifrar el sofisticado sistema de comunicación de estos majestuosos mamíferos. ¿Estamos preparados para lo que tienen que decirnos?

by RUBEN PUJOL

SCIENCE If you could talk to your pet, what would you say? Beyond instructions or expressions of affection, what would you honestly want to tell him or her? What would you like to know about your pet’s life? Or, if you could talk to your favourite animal, be it a penguin or a lion, what kind of conversation would you want to have with it? Would you ask about its feelings or its fears? Are you ready to hear what animals have to say? A VIRAL ENCOUNTER Tom Mustill asked himself many of these questions after a thirty-tonne humpback whale1 nearly killed him in 2015. Born in London in 1983, Tom is a biologist and filmmaker with over twenty years’ experience making wildlife documentaries for the BBC and National Geographic.…

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