Chapter 32: "Cetology"

Update: 2020-06-15

Description

Talia talks to Lisa Munger, a marine biologist specializing in marine biological acoustics, about the legendary Chapter 32, "Cetology," featuring Ishmael's frankly bizarre, wonderful and inaccurate taxonomy of whales. We go into detail about whales from the Sulphur-Bottom to the Huzza Porpoise, discuss why common names are useless, talk about Lisa's adventures tracking whales on the Bering Sea, and listen to the song of the humpback.

Comments

In Channel

Chapters 55-57: "Of the Monstrous Pictures of Whales; Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and the True Pictures of Whaling Scenes; Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet-Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Stars."

2021-03-1001:10:23

Chapters 52-54: "The Albatross," "The Gam," "The Town-Ho's Story"

2021-01-2301:13:03

Chapters 50 & 51: "Ahab’s Boat and Crew. Fedallah" & "The Spirit-Spout"

2020-12-1051:14

Chapters 48 & 49: "The First Lowering" and "The Hyena"

2020-11-1701:08:30

Chapters 46 & 47: "Surmises" and "The Mat-Maker"

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Chapter 45: "The Affidavit"

2020-10-1253:17

Chapters 43 & 44: "Hark!" and "The Chart"

2020-09-2851:35

Chapter 42: "The Whiteness of the Whale"

2020-09-2101:12:56

Chapter 41: "Moby Dick"

2020-09-0956:10

Chapter 40: "Midnight: Forecastle"

2020-08-2756:11

Chapters 37-39: "Sunset," "Dusk," "First Night-Watch"

2020-08-1401:04:42

Chapter 36: "The Quarter-Deck"

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Chapter 35: "The Mast-Head"

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Chapter 34: "The Cabin-Table"

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Chapter 32: "The Specksnyder"

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Chapter 32: "Cetology"

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Chapters 29-31: "Enter Ahab, to him Stubb," "The Pipe," "Queen Mab"

2020-06-1201:11:32

Chapter 28: "Ahab"

2020-05-2901:02:21

Chapters 26 & 27: "Knights and Squires"

2020-05-2101:18:23

EMERGENCY EPISODE: Chapter 22!!

2020-05-0531:45

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Chapter 32: "Cetology"

Talia Lavin

Chapter 32: "Cetology"