Amelia Thomas

Science has shown us that animals communicate constantly and elaborately amongst themselves: bees exchange directions via ‘waggle dances’; dolphins have a ‘signature whistle’ that functions like a human name; and fruit flies even have local dialects. But are they talking to us too? And could we ever learn to listen and understand what they’re trying to say? With the doggedness of...

Are animals trying to tell us something—and have we been too distracted to notice? It started with a hummingbird dive-bombing Amelia Thomas over her morning coffee, and a pair of piglets who just wouldn't stay put. Soon Amelia, journalist and new farmer, begins to question the communications of the creatures all around her: her pigs, her dogs, the pheasant family...