Katy Payne — In the Presence of Elephants and Whales
On Being with Krista Tippett
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Animal Language and Its Importance
We do not understand nearly enough about any animal language to be able to go into these, these realms at all. So i think we don't want to cut off the possibility that other animals are in many ways as complex and interesting as humans. You see, the biologists themselves cross the line when they talk about something they call sexual selection - for a mate that esthe ina, or has a longral, or a beautiful plume, or a, you know, or a different kind of song.
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