words which sounded like the words that the human made." ' 

 This presentation led to misunderstandings among our sci- 

 entific colleagues. It looked as if the animals were doing a slavish 

 tape-recorder rendition of what we were doing in a fashion 

 similar to that of a parrot or a Mynah bird. All along we have 

 known that the dolphins did not do such a slavish job and were 

 obviously doing a much more complicated series of actions. We 

 are just beginning to appreciate how to analyze and what to 

 analyze in these transactions. As I stated in Man and Dolphin 

 about 10% of these emissions sound like human speech. In other 

 words, the dolphin is "saying" far more than we have trans- 

 mitted to the scientific community to date. We hesitate to say 

 anything more about this until we begin to understand what 

 is going on in greater detail. We are making progress slowly. 



Let me then make an appeal to you — a long appeal to your 

 logical and rational views of man and cetaceans. Here I review 

 the above points in more general terms, and develop a plea for a 

 new science — a new discipline combining the best of science 

 with the best of the humanities. 



Several old questions should be revived and asked again with 

 a new attitude, with more modern techniques of investigation 

 and with more persistence. It may take twenty years or more to 

 develop good answers; meanwhile the intellectual life of man 

 will profit in the undertaking. There is something exciting and 

 even at times disturbing in this quest."' The bits and pieces may 

 have started before historical times. In each age of man a new 

 fragment was allowed to be recorded and passed on to subse- 

 quent generations. Each generation judged and rejudged the 

 evidence from the older sources on the basis of its then cur- 

 rent beliefs and on the basis of its new experiences, if any. At 

 times good evidence was attenuated, distorted, and even de- 

 stroyed in the name of the then current dogma. 



Today we have similar problems; our current behefs blind 

 us, too. Evidence right before the eye can be distorted by the 



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