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A scientific article about the \u201cconversation between two dolphins\u201d has recently appeared on the mass media, being widely reported in their science sections. According to a study, dolphins might have a complex language (as much or even more than humans). If anyone takes the trouble to read the original article, they will be able to check out that the obtained conclusions are not based on experimental data, but on \u201cindirect\u201d tests and demonstrations, as well as highly speculative assumption.<\/p>\n

There seems to be some \u201csensational\u201d tendency in current scientific dissemination, especially in articles related to animal intelligence when conclusions meet latest trends or expectations of a certain segment of society on what they would like science to demonstrate (i.e.: some animals are more intelligent, caring and humane that humans themselves).<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, we are far from being able to prove that dolphins have conversations, or that they even might be able to combine sounds to produce words \u2013 all scientific knowledge seems to point in the opposite direction. Not even the experiments results published in the article make possible to demonstrate that dolphins have a language. Thus, stating that \u201c[…] humans must take the first step in establishing connections with the first intelligent inhabitants on planet Earth\u201d, as the author concludes, seems slightly premature and unscientific.<\/p>\n

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Original article:\u00a0Dolphins recorded having a conversation ‘just like two people’ for first time<\/a><\/p>\n

Two dolphins have been recorded having a conversation for the first time after scientists developed an underwater microphone which could distinguish the animals’ different “voices”.<\/p>\n

Researchers have known for decades that the mammals had an advanced form of communication, using distinctive clicks and whistles to show they are excited, happy, stressed or separated from the group.<\/p>\n

But scientists have now shown that dolphins alter the volume and frequency of pulsed clicks to form individual “words” which they string together into sentences in much the same way that humans speak.<\/p>\n

Researchers at the Karadag Nature Reserve, in Feodosia, Ukraine, recorded two Black Sea bottlenose dolphins, called Yasha and Yana, talking to each other in a pool. They found that each dolphin would listen to a sentence of pulses without interruption, before replying.<\/p>\n

Lead researcher Dr Vyacheslav Ryabov, said: \u201cEssentially, this exchange resembles a conversation between two people.<\/p>\n

\u201cEach pulse that is produced by dolphins is different from another by its appearance in the time domain and by the set of spectral components in the frequency domain.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this regard, we can assume that each pulse represents a phoneme or a word of the dolphin’s spoken language.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe analysis of numerous pulses registered in our experiments showed that the dolphins took turns in producing [sentences] and did not interrupt each other, which gives reason to believe that each of the dolphins listened to the other’s pulses before producing its own.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis language exhibits all the design features present in the human spoken language, this indicates a high level of intelligence and consciousness in dolphins, and their language can be ostensibly considered a highly developed spoken language, akin to the human language.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dolphins have possessed brains that are larger and more complex than human ones for more than 25 million years.<\/p>\n

The researchers found that Yasha and Yana could create sentences of up to five “words”, but the scientists still do not understand the content.<\/p>\n

Dr Ryabov said it was now beyond doubt that dolphins speak their own language and it is time to start studying how to communicate directly with them.<\/p>\n

\u201cHumans must take the first step to establish relationships with the first intelligent inhabitants of the planet Earth by creating devices capable of overcoming the barriers that stand in the way of using languages and in the way of communications between dolphins and people,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Scientists already knew that dolphins use more than one thousand different types of whistle depending on social context but it was unclear if they could communicate directly with each other, one to one.<\/p>\n

In 2007 Australian scientists identified specific whistles, which were interpreted to mean \u2018I\u2019m here, where is everyone\u2019, \u2018Hurry up\u2019 and \u2018There\u2019s food over here\u2019.<\/p>\n

Dolphins are also thought to have developed a type of sign language in which they communicate with their flippers.<\/p>\n

A group of scientists in Florida earlier this year showed that the communication between dolphins increases when they are undertaking a difficult task \u2013 in one case removing the lid from a canister \u2013 as if they were discussing the best solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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