Just Whistle?
Published on 1 Jun 2006 at 12:06 pm |
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A little off topic perhaps, but I found this story very interesting:
Dolphins Play the Name Game, too.
What a cool thing. I have all sorts of questions about how they did the experiments and how they can tell a response which indicates recognition of the "Hey, that’s Joe" variety from the "Hey, what the heck was that?" variety.
Also the story has been being related as a story about Dolphins having names when I think that’s not really exactly what’s going on. It’s something more like the call signs airplane pilots use in a traffic pattern. "Katana 2-9-0 Delta-Alpha, turning final" Sure other pilots recognize it, but it becomes a name when one of them answers using that call sign to identify them. A whistle can convey a lot of meaning, Lauren Bacall’s famous movie line comes to mind, or the "come here" whistle, or the "wolf whistle". But does that make those words?
What I’d like to know is if one dolphin has a way of using that "name" to refer to a third dolphin. It seems like that would require other language… What about merely using it in the second pers… er… cetacean, to call to a friend or family member?
Still, neat stuff.
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