Jeffrey Reed: Cry Wolf: Decoding the Language of the Wild
Species Unite
elizabeth novogratz
5 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 23 July 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
“I sit in the camp that is going to defend wildlife, and I will live and die in that space. Even though what I see is in the West, wolves have a bad reputation. It's still there…" -Jeffrey Reed
What if we could understand wolves? How they communicate, what they might be saying? Jeffrey Reed, is a computational linguist, naturalist, and technologist who’s doing just that—using artificial intelligence to decode the wild.
Jeff is the founder of the Cry Wolf Project, a groundbreaking bio acoustic study capturing hundreds of thousands of hours of wolf vocalization across the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
From howls and chorus howls to teeth clacking and whines, Jeff's work is uncovering the complex ways wolves and many other animals communicate with one another. His company, Grizzly Systems, is creating cutting edge tools to help people and wildlife share the land more peacefully and intelligently.
This conversation is about wolves, language, the future of wild soundscapes, and how technology might help us become better neighbors to the beings that we've long misunderstood.
LINKS:
https://www.thecrywolfproject.com/
How individuals can donate to Yellowstone National Park's Wolf Project via this link: https://www.thecrywolfproject.com/donate
Grizzly System's conservation technology: https://www.grizcam.com
Jeff's forthcoming (2026) book on wolf communication, via this link: https://www.thelanguagesoflife.com/excerpt
Jeff's TED Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/jeffrey_t_reed_can_ai_help_us_speak_with_wolves
Jeff's social presence: https://www.facebook.com/jefftreed, https://www.instagram.com/thecrywolfproject, https://www.linkedin.com/in/jefftreed, and https://www.youtube.com/@crywolfproject
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| 0:00.0 | Species. |
| 0:02.0 | Species. |
| 0:07.0 | Unite. |
| 0:10.0 | Unite. |
| 0:11.0 | I sit in the camp that is going to defend wildlife, |
| 0:17.0 | and I will live and die in that space, even though what I see is in the West, wolves have a |
| 0:28.4 | bad reputation. It's still there. |
| 0:40.3 | Hi, I'm Elizabeth Novogratz. This is Species Unite. |
| 0:46.3 | What if we could understand wolves, how they communicate, what they might be saying. |
| 1:01.1 | Those wolfhows were recorded by Jeffrey Reed, |
| 1:04.5 | a computational linguist, naturalist, and technologist, |
| 1:08.1 | who's using the recordings to understand wolf communication using artificial intelligence. |
| 1:12.8 | Jeff is the founder of the Cry Wolf Project, a groundbreaking bioacoustic study capturing hundreds of thousands of hours |
| 1:19.1 | of wolf vocalizations across the greater Yellowstone ecosystem. From howls and chorusels to |
| 1:26.4 | teeth clacking and wines, |
| 1:28.4 | Jeff's work is uncovering the complex ways, wolves and many other animals communicate with one another. |
| 1:35.5 | His company, Grizzly Systems, is creating cutting-edge tools to help people and wildlife share the land more peacefully and intelligently. |
| 1:45.1 | This conversation is about wolves, language, the future of wild soundscapes, and how technology |
| 1:51.8 | might help us become better neighbors to the beings that we've long misunderstood. |
| 2:14.7 | Hi, Jeff. |
| 2:17.3 | Thank you so much for doing this today. |
| 2:18.8 | It's really cool that you're here. |
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