...empowers artists to re-invent the human relationship with animals, with the goal of healing our own species' emotional, spiritual, and cultural ties with nature. Our best known work brings musicians together with wild whales and dolphins to explore the potential for interspecies communication. If you'd like to support Interspecies.com, read this letter to donors. And here's a more detailed page about what we do.
 Our current issue discusses how language informs the most basic ways we relate to animals. Paul Watson from Sea Shepherd Society reports about the recent IWC meeting in Chile. Art by Mark Fischer and a new song by Jim Nollman. If you like what you read, delve into our archive. If you'd like to receive this semi-monthly news, send us a note. We do not share email addresses with anyone.
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1. Animal portraits by Jim Nollman. Click the orcas here, or the orca graph below, to receive a print in support of our work. |
Our musical instrument scrapbook features photos of guitars, drums, mandolins, and technology used in our work over the past 30 years.
Explore our reviews page, which may contain the internet's largest collection of nature media including books, TV, film, magazines.
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2. Mark Fischer adapts wavelet graphs as a tool for interpreting whale calls. This one depicts an orca call. |
- Is it really possible to communicate with whales? What form of media would YOU choose to try it? We've been researching these questions on the ocean for thirty years. Read this multi-part essay to learn what we've discovered.
- Take a listen to some new songs from our Jukebox. It includes Last Days, about dying with dignity, and featuring an interspecies interaction with wolves.
- And Finally, Can we all agree to stop calling Physeter macrocephalus by the idiotic name of "sperm" whale? Read this editorial to find out why. The Interspecies cachalot project documents a whale's version of a drumming circle.
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