Welcome to Star Talk.

Your place in the universe where science and pop culture collide.

Star Talk begins right now.

This is Star Talk. I'm Neil deGrasse Tyson, your personal astrophysicist.

I serve as the director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium, part of the American Museum of Natural History, right here in Manhattan.

As Cosmic Curries, you know who my co-host is, Chuck.

What's up, Neil? Thanks for being there in Arms Reach.

Of digital arms reach.

Digital arms reach? Yes, exactly. I feel your zeros and ones touching my face right now.

There you go. Base two, zeros and ones.

You know what the topic is today? Interspecies communication.

Yes, that's creepy.

I mean, it's beautiful, but creepy. It's gorgeous. Not as gorgeous as interspecies dating, but hey, what are you going to do?

I don't know what that means.

What we have is one of the world's experts on this who's a professor of psychology at Hunter College.

And is in the Animal Behavior and Comparative Psychology Doctoral Program at the Graduate Center of CUNY, the City University of New York,

the one and the only professor Diana Reese. Diana, welcome to Star Talk.

Well, hi. Thanks for having me today.

And you've been out in our backyard the whole time we've been having Star Talk and where you've been.

I'm out of here. You're just right there. You've been talking to other animals, I think.

That's it. Yeah. You can study your own damn species. I've been hanging out with dolphins.

So let me just think, get the audience to know you a little better.

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