Talking With Dolphins

Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin
Published in
1 min readFeb 16, 2011

[I]f humanity someday arrives at an extraterrestrial cocktail party, will we be ready to mingle? At the Wild Dolphin Project in Jupiter, Florida, researchers train for contact by trying to talk with dolphins.

Hey how’s it going?

Pretty good.

Have you been here for a while?

Been where?

In this … ocean?

Yeah. Forever.

Haha, yeah, I just realized that was a stupid question. Are you afraid of aliens?

Of what?

Do you know a lot of the other dolphins here?

All of them.

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Edith Zimmerman
The Hairpin

Spiralbound editor. Formerly at The Hairpin. Also now making a newsletter: https://drawinglinks.substack.com