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These have shown that each animal learns its own individually distinctive whistle, known as a signature whistle. These signature whistles are exchanged by groups of dolphins when they meet at sea and are used to address each other - similar to how humans use names. But it was unclear whether African bottlenose dolphins use a similar communication system, until now. A new study, published in Plos One, has found that both species of bottlenose dolphin found in south Africa and Namibia; the Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) and the common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus), use a communication system based on signature whistles. Read more: dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2841344/Whats-Flipper-Researchers-bottlenose-dolphins-whistles-names-identified-easily.html#ixzz3JcmabvaF Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 15:53:06 +0000

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