Jesse and Priscilla talk with Cambridge Zoologist Arik Kershenbaum about clues in animal communications that might help us make meaningful contact with aliens.

What can we learn from animal communication, and what is the possibility of communication with alien life?

• Evolutionary biologists will be necessary to understand complex ecosystems on other planets
• Arik Kershenbaum analyses animal communication to understand how animals communicate on Earth
• Explores the possibility of communication with alien life
• Math, analysis and algorithms are required to understand animal communication
• How do we go about finding out what animals are communicating?
• Arik works on the communication of wolves, dolphins, parrots, gibbons and more
• Animal communication always serves a purpose or it wouldn’t have evolved