Bottlenose dolphins can call each other by name when they whistle, making them the only animals, besides humans to recognize such identity information. Scientist have long known that the whistling that the dolphins make repeatedly are thought to be known as name calling, but a new study shows that dolphins recognize these names even when sound cues are take away.
Each dolphin has a distinctive signature whistle and that’s how each dolphin knows whom he or she is talking to and when. All because of the many different whistles. Scientists already knew that the dolphins responded to whistles but weren’t sure if it was the way the whistle was given off or the length of the whistle. They also weren’t sure of what was being said when a dolphin whistled at another dolphin.
Scientists decided to test a group of bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay, Florida. Instead of taking recording to them they made signature whistles and then played them under water and watched the reaction of the dolphins. In nine out of 14 cases the scientists found that the dolphin was more likely to turn towards the speaker if the whistle heard sounded more like one of a close relative. Dolphins might have a human like language.
This was a very interesting article knowing that dolphins communicate through whistles and each dolphin has a signature whistle. Knowing what whistle is a close relative would be very hard to remember. Also knowing that Dolphins might have a human like language is kind of scary.
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They also have sex for pleasure like us.