Sentences with phrase «use signature whistles»
Understanding how dolphins use signature whistles opens up many exciting research possibilities, according to Sayigh.
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A 2004 study showed that a group of free - swimming bottlenose dolphins in Florida did indeed use signature whistles.
What if they use a signature whistle to refer to a «third party» or a dolphin that isn't there?»
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.
A sequence analysis verified that most of the whistles used during joins were signature whistles.
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.
We used passive acoustic localization during focal boat follows to observe signature whistle use in the wild.