Thanks. Whales are fascinating animals. Every time I see a photo of a whale's eye I am struck by the feeling that the animal is probably smarter than the photog

Thanks. Whales are fascinating animals. Every time I see a photo of a whale's eye I am struck by the feeling that the animal is probably smarter than the photographer. I feel that other animals maintain a complex inter-species communication network that we have evolved to lock ourselves out of once our own capacity to destroy larger, more dangerous animals developed to the point where the main threat to our own survival came from other humans. Our senses optimized to detect and interpret those signals that come from the largest hazard to our own existence. We still have the ability to recognize other species warning signals - growls from dogs, roars from lions and bears, etc. but we no longer natively understand the content of the message, instead we can only interpret the context before taking any action.