
What’s In A Whistle? Name-calling In The Ocean

Science Now reported that every dolphin has its own high-pitched whistle and an analysis of whistles recorded from hundreds of wild bottlenose dolphins confirms that the dolphins have names (whistles) for each other.
Even infant dolphins learn their individual whistles from their mothers and males friendly with each other copy each others’s signature whistles.
“It’s a wonderful study, really solid,” says Peter Tyack, a marine mammal biologist at the University of St. Andrews. “Having the ability to learn another individual’s name is … not what most animals do.”
To hear some dolphin whistles, visit here.
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