Larger than the largest dinosaur.

比最大的恐龍還大。

Our goal is to interact with them.

我們的目標是與牠們互動。

Fabrice Schnöller is an engineer, biologist, and founder of the DAREWIN Project.

Fabrice Schnöller 是位工程師、生物學家，也是 DAREWIN 計畫的發起人。

His goal is to record and analyze sperm whale vocalizations.

他的目的是要記錄跟分析抹香鯨的發聲。

DAREWIN Project, it raises the question: Do these animals communicate like us?

DAREWIN 計畫提出了一個問題：這些動物的溝通模式像我們一樣嗎？

So, the idea is to see if there is information in sound.

所以概念是，看看聲音裡是否有什麼訊息。

Sperm whales communicate using a series of complex clicking.

抹香鯨使用一系列複雜的滴答聲來溝通。

Some clicks are as short as a thousandth of a second.

有些滴答聲只有千分之一秒的長度。

When we get into that sound, we see that there is a pattern.

當我們仔細研究，會發現聲音中有固定的模式。

It's not random.

並不是隨機的。

Maybe it's not impossible that these animals have a very sophisticated language.

這些動物擁有複雜的語言，也許不無可能。

Fabrice's objective is to gather as many recordings of the whales as possible, to figure out if that language exists.

Fabrice 的目的是盡可能地錄下鯨魚的聲音好用來分析牠們之間是否存在語言。

But sperm whales are not the easiest animals to get close to.

但抹香鯨不是最容易接近的動物。

Maybe only 10 years ago, no one was going into the water with sperm whales because they are predators.

也許在 10 年前而已，沒人到海裡找抹香鯨，因為牠們是掠食動物。

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.

如果你打擾到牠們、船撞到牠們、或試著想殺死其中一隻抹香鯨牠們會變得非常危險。

By free-diving - diving on a single breath of air - Fabrice is able to get incredibly close to the whales.

透過自由潛水，不帶氧氣筒，只靠一口氣潛水，Fabrice 能夠非常接近鯨魚。

They usually don't come to divers.

他們通常不會靠近潛水者。

That's why we free-dive, and we try to get these very exceptional observations.

那就是為什麼我們要自由潛水，我們試著取得這些非常特別的觀察記錄。

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.

透過如此親密的互動 Fabrice 才能夠捕捉他需要的錄音內容，如此一來總有一天可以解開牠們溝通的秘密。

With the sperm whale, when they decide to come to see you, you are the subject.

對抹香鯨來說，如果牠們主動來接近你，代表你就是主角。

They are looking at you.

牠們正看著你。

They are analyzing you.

牠們在分析你。

And this is really something I've never seen with another animal.

這樣的現象我在其他動物身上真的沒看過。

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，如果有種動物有機會打開動物與人類間的小小橋梁，那就是抹香鯨了。