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Podcast: New Books in Communications
Episode: Tom Mustill, "How to Speak Whale: A Voyage into the Future of Animal Communication" (Grand Central Publishing, 2022)
Description: What if animals and humans could speak to one another? Tom Mustillâthe nature documentarian who went viral when a thirtyâton humpback whale breached onto his kayakâasks this question in his thrilling investigation into whale science and animal communication.âWhen a whale is in the water, it is like an iceberg: you only see a fraction of it and have no conception of its size.âOn September 12, 2015, Tom Mustill was paddling in a two-person kayak with a friend just off the coast of California. It was cold, but idyllicâuntil a humpback whale breached, la...