Signs Taken for Wonders

Aliens among us
The NYT is featuring a neat essay on whale-human interaction: Watching Whales Watching Us.

"...there’s something very potent occurring here from a behavioral and a biological perspective. I mean, I’d put my career on the line and challenge anybody to say that these whales are not actively soliciting and engaging in a form of communication with humans, both through eye contact and tactile interaction and perhaps acoustically in ways that we have not yet determined. I find the reality of it far more enthralling than all our past whale mythology.”

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