Do Dolphins Have Names? What Scientists Have Found

Dolphins seem to have names. Each one invents its own signature whistle and keeps it for life. We go through the playback experiment in Scotland, the Sarasota Bay studies, how mothers change their whistles for calves, why scientists are careful about the word name, and elephants. Footage: Pixabay; Wikimedia Commons: Adam Fish (CC BY 3.0); It is a wonderful world (CC BY-SA 4.0). Photos (Wikimedia Commons): Dave Keeshan, Des Colhoun, Lewis Clarke, Murray Foubister (CC BY-SA 2.0); Peter Asprey, http://www.peter-asprey.com/, Spyrogumas (CC BY-SA 3.0); Beyond My Ken, Charles J. Sharp, Giles Laurent, TurionTzukosson (CC BY-SA 4.0); MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC, NASA, Rene at Danish Wikipedia, U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Brien Aho. (Public domain) Music: original composition. #dolphins #animalfacts #animalcommunication #science #ocean