Music and (Non) Human Culture (Feat. Whale Songs)

What purpose does music serve? The answer is a mystery, whether you have feet, feathers, or fins.

We talk about dancing parrots, singing whales, and music that got sent into space for aliens to find.

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Ami Kingdon is a marine science journalist and producer of the Hakai Podcast, “The Sound Aquatic”. Learn more about her work here and here.

RIP Alex the Parrot (the name ALEX, by the way, stands for Avian Learning Experiment)

Cool research happening with machine learning + whales here.