"How do you know that? " I do not know it. I am not an expert and had only limited, (but fascinating) contact with them. But I would assume, if they would be

"How do you know that? " I do not know it. I am not an expert and had only limited, (but fascinating) contact with them. But I would assume, if they would be "way smarter", than they could and would find ways of communicating with us. As far as I know, the research shows that they can communcicate towards each other quite well, but not towards us beyond very basic things. But of course that reminds me of an old joke: A donkey and a dog on a farm are talking to each other in the evening and the donkey complains that he has so much work to do, but would like to become a writer. The dog asks: why don't you tell the farmer? The donkey answers, are you crazy? If he finds out, I can read and write, I will also have to do his bookkeeping. Meaning, maybe whales and co. could communicate with us, but choose not to. But if this would be the case, their reasoning would have to include some very astonishing things, as whales are still hunted - which they likely could almost completely stop by telling us exactly that.