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If Animals Could Talk

A new art installation broadcasts the audiovisual worlds of dolphins, bats, snakes, and other animals. The post If Animals Could Talk appeared first on Nautilus.

It was a profound moment of connection. Carlos Casas could feel the elephant probing him, touching him with sound. The grunts emanating from the large male were of a frequency too low to hear, but Casas felt an agitation on his skin and deep inside his chest. “I was being scanned,” he says.

At the time of the encounter, Casas was filming a project in Sri Lanka, and was holding a camera. But his interactions with the elephant gave the Catalonian filmmaker and

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