With ecosystems in crisis, engineers and scientists are teaming up to decipher what animals are saying. Their hope: By truly listening to nature, humans will decide to protect it.
• Michel Fournet, biologist, studies whales and their communication.
• Fournet and her colleagues are developing technology to decipher the language of whales.
• Humpback whales communicate using whistles that can be decoded by artificial intelligence.
• Fournet and her team study different kinds of whales and their calls.
• Scientists develop algorithms to decipher whale language and communication.
• Artificial intelligence can be used to decipher whale language, but there are questions about its ethics.
