@tommustill

Writer & nature film maker

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Joined February 2010
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HOW TO SPEAK WHALE IS OUT! 📘🐳 To celebrate I tried to summarise it in 60s 🤯
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In a break from the current VC world drama, I pose the question everyone actually cares about. Can we use AI to talk to whales? @ProjectCETI’s David Gruber is building the infrastructure to enable the first human-whale conversation and initiate an interspecies dialogue. We discuss: - David’s journey to sperm whales - How AI can translate a language no human has ever spoken - Sperm whale culture & the whale economy - The seismic societal implications of human-animal communication - The future is going to be much stranger than we can imagine. Enjoy! TIMESTAMPS 0:00 Intro 1:48 David's Journey 12:30 An Interspecies Dialogue 17:14 Sperm Whale Language & Culture 23:48 The Breakthroughs Yet to Come 27:49 The Whales Are Yappers 31:03 Sperm Whales Have Accents 39:47 Verifying a Whale Translation 42:13 What Success Looks Like 47:32 Saving the Whales
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Humpback Whale adventure in Sussex 🐋 The team at Sussex Dolphin Project and our friend @tommustill spent 2 HOURS with a humpback whale just off Seaford last week. 🤩 Tom has been very busy developing this video of what was a magical experience. 🎥 vimeo.com/1050712074 🧵
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We know more about some of the whales and dolphins in the seas of Antarctic than we do about those that live in the channel. “THE SUSSEX HUMPBACK" vimeo.com/1050712074

THE SUSSEX HUMPBACK (C) TOM MUSTILL

Here’s a little video I made of something I never expected to witness in the channel! 🐋 Last week I got a last minute message from Lloyd at Sussex Dolphin Project asking if I’d like to jump on a...

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Here’s a little video I made of something I never expected to witness in the channel! 🐋 Last week I got a last minute message from Lloyd @SussexDolphin asking if I’d like to jump on a boat to see if we could find & ID the humpback seen off Hastings... vimeo.com/1050712074
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vimeo.com/1050712074

THE SUSSEX HUMPBACK (C) TOM MUSTILL

Here’s a little video I made of something I never expected to witness in the channel! 🐋 Last week I got a last minute message from Lloyd at Sussex Dolphin Project asking if I’d like to jump on a...

vimeo.com
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Get the Sussex Dolphin Project a dedicated research vessel! (they have to rent them or borrow them off friendly captains like Kurt Lander at the moment). And if you live in the UK - go to the sea and be part of the story - witness, learn, explore and protect. – at Brighton, England
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@whalesorg @WorldCetacean @sascampaigns @happyhumpback @HugoSAS @GeorgeMonbiot @lucysiegle
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I’ve been interviewing scientists , fishers and first responders about what they think is going on - from walrus pleasuring themselves beneath Jamie’s Italian in Scarborough, to mass strandings of pilot whales
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Subtropical and artic species converging to feed in our seas and be killed by supertrawlers, from polluted orcas and breaching humpbacks. It is a messy, scary, encouraging, huge story, reflecting the ocean as a whole and the UK sits at a marine crossroads to understand it.
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This sighting is part of a much bigger story of the UK seas and the changing animal lives we are witnessing there
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- in the last year I've seen tuna bait balls turn the surface white and rock our boat on a calm day, been surrounded underwater by a hundred common dolphins, surfed with a minke whale and watched puffins zoom underwater
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30 years ago humpbacks were rare off both US coasts, now watching whales of all kinds is pretty much guaranteed if you set off from Monterey Bay and humpbacks breach in front of the Statue of Liberty
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I am wondering - is something like this what we are seeing in the UK, young whales coming to return to where their ancestors were slaughtered a whale generation ago?
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We know more about some of the whales and dolphins in Antartica than those off Sussex.
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and allows us to know how many there are, some species are declining and others like humpbacks seem to be rebounding (but also vulnerable to marine heatwaves).
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After two hours we finally got a good sight and recording of its tail - I sent it to Ted at @happyhumpback as we drove home and he confirmed it was a new whale - one not ID’d before.
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Normally when lone cetaceans turn up in unusual places, like busy sea lanes, it is bad news for them, but in general humpbacks have been resurgent globally. Because of scientists, whale-watchers and citizen scientists we can ID them which tells us who they are..
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Was it feeding underwater stirring up the bottom (70-90ft depth)? It was manoevring so tightly I sometimes wondered if I was seeing two whales, surfacing as it was pointing in different directions.
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Atlantic humpbacks tend to have light undersides to their tail flukes and dorsal fins, & it showed us as it breached and pec slapped spectacularly. But largely it seemed intent on staying in a small patch of sea, turning back on itself & surfacing regularly between short dives
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It seemed in good nick, with nothing entangled and decent body condition and healthy exuberant behaviour and breathing, distinctive white notch ahead of its dorsal fin (old entanglement scar?).
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Nothing but grey for three hours, hallucinating blows and whaley shapes, then I saw a dark shape dead ahead! For the next two hours we (carefully at a distance) observed a beautiful lone humpback.
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It was a misty freezing morning but Capt. Kurt was cheerful as we set out of Brighton Marina and showed us waters full of thick schools of baitfish on his sonar. We stationed ourselves around the vessel staring out, bundled up with cold noses and fingertips.
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