The selection I've chosen to recount for you is the section of the book that actually gave me chills. It was so good, it fronted the first issue of my doomed Animal Rights newsletter, all too many years ago. If you ever want to hear some boring stories of . The sperm whale has a brain six times that of a man. Only a small part of that brain is used for survival.
Nothing is certain, of course.
Nature's gifts are never frivolously bestowed. These are brilliant creatures whose perceptions are probably six times our own. We've studied the recordings of their music and it expresses emotions which are quite beyond us, really, but deeply stirring nonetheless. Their music is profoundly sad, like the dying of a star. My dear fellow, they've been hounded to the brink of extinction.