Two whales looking at man

 

Imagine two huge whales floating quietly side by side. Their conversation reverberating through the water around them.

They are discussing humans, those bipedal animals that live on land, but are appearing more and more often in the oceans of the world.

To them we are probably the equivalent of the Tasmanian devil.

We are top carnivores with a huge home range. We are loud and noisy in groups and seem to be fixated on finding and eating the creatures in the water. 

The whales understand many, if not all of our words. We do not speak whale at all. How primitive that must seem to them.

All the different groups of whales have managed to coexist in the oceans for many many years. They appear to have languages, songs, hunting techniques, but do not seem to need to erect shelters, or create weapons. They are not greedy. They do not have banks where they store precious things.

I suspect that life is most precious to them and they have cultivated a form of civilization we cannot comprehend.