Peter Beamish

Peter Beamish researches animal communication[?] in Trinity Bay, Newfoundland[?]. His focus is in the humpback whale and its capacity for what Beamish calls rhythm-based communication[?], a concept originally proposed by Soviet researchers in the 1970s and 1980s.

Beamish's work has attracted support and attention from other researchers in this area, e.g. John Lilly[?], and some intellectuals and political figures, e.g. Pierre Elliot Trudeau. Some dispute the scientific nature of the work.

Beamish has published:

• Dancing With Whales[?] - anecdotal and experimental evidence of communication
• Rhythm-based communication[?] - a short paper on the mathematics of signals