"Dude, dolphins are intelligent and friendly."
Dolphins 'know each other's names'
This isn't groundbreaking news, but it's neat. And dolphins make me happy. :D
In the study some of the Sarasota Bay animals were corralled in a net. The researchers then played synthetic versions of the signature whistles of other dolphins through underwater loudspeakers to see if they would evoke a response in the captive animals. The use of synthetic whistles ruled out the possibility that the animals might simply be recognising the sound of each other’s voices.
They found that dolphins responded strongly to the whistles of their relatives and associates while generally ignoring those of dolphins to whom they had no link.
Janik said: “Bottlenose dolphins are the only animals other than humans to have been shown to transmit identity information independent of the caller’s voice.”
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posted by Becca @ 5:41 PM
1 Comments:
Dolphins also gang-rape and murder each other.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
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