Dolphins call each other by name

[efattah]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/05/09/dolphins.names.reut/index.html

Amazing:

"More than that, two dolphins may refer to a third by the third animal's name, said Laela Sayigh, one of three authors of a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences."

In other words, two dolphins may talk about a third dolphin 'behind his back' by referring to him by name!

 

[Jorg]

Wow, that's some pretty amazing news! I sometimes wonder what we would know about this animals in 50 years or so, now that technology is further enhancing and helping us to do research stuff like this.

 

[perow1]

Actually I think this "phenomenon" is present in many species, the hard part for us is just to decode it. When you think of it humans are not soo advanced. Many of us are so proud of our ability to talk about other persons that it results in gossip, magazines and posts about David Blaine. :t

To me it is interesting though how this news was found out. Communication is fairly subjective to a species and decoding it is a great job.

Interesting

 

[bottomdweller]

Many owners of 2 dogs know that each dog knows and responds to its own name and not the other's name, even though each is being inflected as a call.