Dolphin in sentence

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And at this age, my personal idol was Flipper the dolphin.

Here's a dolphin where the fin's been re-attached.

Baby dolphin and baby llamas.

And we know they use some of that brainpower for just living complicated lives, but what do we really know about dolphin intelligence?

We try to follow dolphin etiquette while we're in the water, since we're actually observing them physically in the water.

Now, the signature whistle is a whistle that's specific to an individual dolphin, and it's like a name.

This is the dolphin's sonar.

Now this is some video of a typical dolphin fight.

Now, it's important to remember that you're only hearing the human-audible parts of dolphin sounds, and dolphins make ultrasonic sounds, and we use special equipment in the water to collect these sounds.

Two are human words, and one is a dolphin vocalizing.

So just take a guess in your mind which one is the dolphin.

They were spontaneously mimicking our vocalizations and our postures, and they were also inviting us into dolphin games.

They're outside the dolphin's normal repertoire, but they're easily mimicked by the dolphins.

So I've got the rope, I'm diving down, and I'm basically trying to get the dolphin's attention, because they're kind of like little kids.

This is a scarf toy, and I'm trying to lead the dolphin over to the keyboard to show her the visual and the acoustic signal.

Now this dolphin, we call her "the scarf thief," because over the years she's absconded with about 12 scarves.

The dolphin's at the keyboard.

[CHAT: Cetacean Hearing And Telemetry] Now, instead of pushing a keyboard through the water, the diver's wearing the complete system, and it's acoustic only, so basically the diver activates the sounds on a keypad on the forearm, the sounds go out through an underwater speaker, if a dolphin mimics the whistle or a human plays the whistle, the sounds come in and are localized by two hydrophones.

So Diver A and Diver B both have a wearable computer and the dolphin hears the whistle as a whistle, the diver hears the whistle as a whistle in the water, but also as a word through bone conduction.

What we hope will happen is that the dolphin mimics the whistle, and if Diver A has the sargassum, if that's the sound that was played and requested, then the diver will give the sargassum to the requesting dolphin and they'll swim away happily into the sunset playing sargassum for forever.

For example, right now we can put their own signature whistles in the computer and request to interact with a specific dolphin.

In the case of a dolphin, you know, it's a species that, well, they're probably close to our intelligence in many ways and we might not be able to admit that right now, but they live in quite a different environment, and you still have to bridge the gap with the sensory systems.

Diana Reiss: You may think you're looking through a window at a dolphin spinning playfully, but what you're actually looking through is a two-way mirror at a dolphin looking at itself spinning playfully.

This is a dolphin that is self-aware.

This dolphin has self-awareness.

It's a young dolphin named Bayley.

And you can't get more alien than the dolphin.

Joining me are three of our eight Atlantic bottlenose dolphins: 20-year-old Chesapeake, who was our first dolphin born here, her four-year-old daughter Bayley, and her half sister, 11-year-old Maya.

And while that idea may be disquieting, and while parasites' habits may be very grisly, I think that ability to surprise us makes them as wonderful and as charismatic as any panda or butterfly or dolphin.

And that's why we have unmanned marine vehicles, one type of which you've already met, which is SARbot, a square dolphin.

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