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Who’s Saying What? Answers from New Technologies

One of the oldest and greatest questions dolphin researchers thump their heads over: “Who is saying what?” While many have attempted to answer, there has always been one great hurdle: Technology. Only until recently, has technology begun to catch up to this question — and wait until you see what researchers have discovered…

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Apes’ and Children’s Understanding of Cooperative and Competitive Communication

How do apes and humans differ? There are a lot of answers, but one way is communication! Esther Hermann and Michael Tomasello conducted research to test an ape’s ability to understand a human’s communicative motive. To do this they took a look at how an ape interprets pointing. Additionally, the researchers did the same tests…

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How Do Humpback Whales Learn Their Songs?

A Review of “Cultural Confusion: Parsimony, Social Learning, and Humpback Whales” By Heidi Lyn Humpback whales are well known for their elaborate vocal songs, but how do they learn these? Dr. Heidi Lyn – a comparative psychologist studying cognition and communication in non-human animals – has taken a look at how scientists have analyzed this…

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Masking – Are we louder than dolphins?

With human activity increasing both in coastal and deep ocean, the world’s ocean has become quite a noisy environment. Concerned researchers have investigated how this may be impacting marine life, including marine mammals. One study has investigated the potential effects of pile driving on the dynamics of bottlenose dolphin populations. Importance of Sound to Bottlenose…

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