Interspecies Communication with Whales

Interspecies 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 from around the world together with wild whales and dolphins, to explore the potential for interspecies communication. If you'd like to support Interspecies.com, click the PayPal button. Here's a more detailed page about what we do.

The Feb/March Interspecies Newsletter features a guided tour of some of innovative updates on this website. Also watch a most surreal news account of an Australian oil spill. Plus all the usual outstanding links to animal and art stuff on the internet. If you'd like to receive our newsletter, with occasional guest essays by Paul Watson, David Rothenberg, and other well known animal professionals, send us an email. We do not share addresses with anyone.

Have you seen the film, The Cove? Read this story about Interspecies first field project, to stop a dolphin drive fishery in Japan.

Interspecies Art

Browse this site awhile, and you are bound to notice that every page features original art. Some of the images are wavelet graphs representing actual animal calls, and created by Mark Fischer who has been working with Interspecies for several years. Other images are by Interspecies' founder, Jim Nollman who sells his "animal portraits" in various galleries. A third category is imagery by many different artists which has appeared in 30 years of the Interspecies newsletter. Here's just a peek of the art on this site:

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...and discover essays about: Turkey songs, earth art, eco-ethics, nature films, lion protocol, the cetacean nation, whale petroglyphs, sentient gardening, wasp altruism, cougar survival

Our musical instrument scrapbook features photos of guitars, drums, mandolins, and technology used in our work over the past 30 years.

Listen to this musical interaction between a guitarist and orcas, recorded off Vancouver Island in 2002.

This website features many recordings of whales interacting with musicians on the ocean. This example, produced in 1979, showcases a blues guitar and an orca. This one, from 2001, showcases jazz and 300 dolphins.