Sentences with phrase «signature whistles when»

Our results clearly show that dolphins provide identity information through signature whistles when they encounter other groups at sea.

The dolphins used signature whistles when meeting up with another group, Quick and Janik report online today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B. What's more, they gave the distinctive whistle only if they actually mingled with the other dolphins.

Not exact matches

A new study shows that dolphins use their own unique calls, known as signature whistles, to introduce themselves to others when meeting at sea.

The animals can easily reproduce each other's signatures, and they often do this so - called whistle - matching when out of sight from one another.

In this study, we demonstrated that whistle copying does not occur when animals encounter each other initially, which is what we would predict if copied signature whistles are used to address specific individuals.

The data show that signature whistle exchanges are a significant part of a greeting sequence that allows dolphins to identify conspecifics when encountering them in the wild.