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Sperm whales are the largest predator that ever existed on Earth.
抹香鯨，地球上最大的食肉動物。
Larger than the largest dinosaur.
其體型比最大的恐龍還要大。
Our goal is to interact with them.
我們的目標是與他們互動。
Fabrice Schnöller is an engineer, biologist, and founder of the DAREWIN Project.
法布里斯·西那諾爾是一名工程師，生物學家，還是“達爾文項目”的創始人。
His goal is to record and analyze sperm whale vocalizations.
他的目標是記錄和分析抹香鯨發出的聲音。
Darewin Project, it raises the question: Do these animals communicate like us?
達爾文項目提出了一個問題：這些動物會像我們一樣溝通嗎？
So the idea is to see if there is information in sound.
我們就像知道，它們發出的聲音中是否含有信息。
Sperm whales communicate using a series of complex clicking.
抹香鯨是用一連串復雜的滴答聲。
Some clicks are as short as a thousandth of a second.
有些甚至不過千分之一秒。
When we get into that sound, we see that there is a pattern. It's not random.
仔細研究了那個聲音之后，我們發現它并不是隨機的，而是有規律可循的。
Maybe it's not impossible that these animals have a very sophisticated language.
也許，這些動物有著非常復雜的語言也不是全然不可能。
Fabrice's objective is to gather as many recordings of the whales as possible to figure out if that language exists.
法布里斯的目標是盡可能多收集抹香鯨聲音的錄音，斷定它們到底有沒有語言。
But sperm whales are not the easiest animals to get close to.
然而，抹香鯨這種動物并不容易接近。
Maybe only 10 years ago, no one was going into the water with sperm whales because they are predators.
即便是大約10年前，都沒有人下水去接近抹香鯨，因為它們是食肉動物。
If you bother them, if you hit them with a boat, or if you try to kill one of them, they can be extremely dangerous.
如果你打擾到它們，用船撞他們，或者要殺死它們的同伴，它們就可能變得極其危險。
By free-diving - diving on a single breath of air, fabrice is able to get incredibly close to the whales.
通過自由潛水，也就是憑著一口氣往下潛，法布里斯能夠非常近距離地接觸抹香鯨。
They usually don't come to (scuba) divers.
他們通常是不會靠近（水肺）潛水員的。
That's why we free-dive, and we try to get these very exceptional observations.
所以我們要自由潛水，希望能夠對它們進行獨特的觀察。
It's through these intimate interactions that Fabrice is able to capture the recordings he needs to one day unlock the secret of their communication.
正是有了這些親密的互動，法布里斯才得以獲取到他所需要的錄音，從而在未來的某一天揭開抹香鯨溝通的秘密。
With the sperm whale, when they decide to come to see you, you are the subject.
抹香鯨，它們決定過來看你時，你就變成了被看的對象。
They are looking at you. Theya are analyzing you.
他們在看著你，在分析你。
And this is really something I've never seen with another animal.
這一點我在其他任何動物身上都從未見過。
For me, if there is an animal that has a chance to open a little bridge between animals and humans, it is a sperm whale.
對我來說，如果有動物有機會在動物和人類之間搭一座橋梁，那就是抹香鯨。
