Denise L. Herzing

Denise L. Herzing is an American marine biologist and research scientist who has spent over three decades studying wild Atlantic spotted dolphins in the Bahamas. She is the founder and research director of the Wild Dolphin Project, one of the longest-running studies of wild dolphins in the world. Is Anyone Listening? explores what decades of studying dolphin communication, cognition and social behaviour have revealed about the nature of intelligence and the possibility of meaningful communication between humans and other species. Herzing's work sits at the frontier of interspecies communication research, combining rigorous field science with a genuine sense of wonder about the minds of the dolphins she has come to know as individuals over decades of observation. She has published extensively in scientific journals and has given a widely viewed TED talk on her research. Her audiobooks and books bring the excitement of marine research and the profound questions it raises about intelligence and communication to a broad audience.