Why Animals Talk Quotes

“If dolphins are communicating not in a code, per se, if there is no straightforward mapping between the sounds that they make and the meanings that they want to convey, then the big-data machine-learning approach is unlikely to provide much insight. It seems to me far more reasonable that our task should be to understand the nature and the reasons behind the communication of these animals, and only then will we be able to know what kind of information might exist, and how to look for it, rather than hoping for human-like information, and searching doggedly for what we want to find.”
― Arik Kershenbaum, Why Animals Talk: The New Science of Animal Communication