Like us humans, many animals rely on social interactions to survive and thrive. As a result, effective communication between ...

Researchers found bottlenose dolphins use shared non-signature whistles to signal alarm or curiosity. These whistles might ...

While dolphins are known to transmit information in their whistles, until now it hasn't been clear whether the marine mammals used the same sounds to indicate a shared understanding of a concept ...

Every bottlenose dolphin has its own distinct high-pitched whistle. The marine mammals use these whistles to identify one another and to communicate and maintain bonds. They can even mimic the ...

Bottlenose dolphins living near Sarasota, Florida have been observed making consistently structured whistles that suggest a common meaning. Dolphins are some of the most vocal animals in our oceans.

So it may come as no surprise that the marine mammals also call each other by whistles that act as names. Past studies have shown that individual dolphins have a unique whistle, called a ...

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Dolphins’ “signature whistles,” which they use like names to identify themselves to others and convey personal information, have long been known as one of the most complex forms of animal ...

It turns out that some dolphins do, too. Bottlenose dolphin moms modify their individually distinctive whistles when their babies are nearby, researchers report June 26 in the Proceedings of the ...

To see whether bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) do so, Laela Sayigh at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and her colleagues recorded the whistles of 19 dolphin mothers ...

In other words, you’d need a dolphin. Every bottlenose dolphin produces its own unique signature whistle, which is the closest thing any animal has to a human name. Dolphins can recognize ...