About this episode

The episode explores the relationship between humans and whales through the analysis of whale sounds.

“Learning whale language is about being in right relationship.” In the first episode of For The Wild’s In the Company of Humpbacks, we hear from Joe Olson and Dr. Fred Sharpe about their approaches to analyzing whale sound. When we desire to understand whales, what more than human impulse are we activating? Immersing the listener in a world of exploration and investigation, this episode leaves us with the spirit of questioning and a hope for deeper relationality in our pursuit of understandin...

Keywords

• humpbacks
• whale sound analysis
• deeper relationality

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