Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A long‑term study in Sarasota, Fla., details how bottlenose dolphins are social creatures that use whistles and clicks to ...

You know instantly when someone is speaking to an infant or small child. It turns out that dolphin mothers also use a kind of high-pitched baby talk. A study published Monday found that female ...

Wild bottlenose dolphins produce individually distinctive whistles and use them to address specific companions, functioning much like personal names in human conversation. Playback experiments ...

People living along Japan's Sea of Japan coast had been saying for years that they occasionally spotted dolphins close to shore. Local fishers also reported seeing them from time to time. These ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bottlenose dolphins are social creatures that use whistles and clicks to communicate with each other. Human fascination with ...

Human fascination with bottlenose dolphins goes back thousands of years, at least as early as Greek mythology. But it wasn't until the 1960s that methodical research into dolphin communication began.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) But it wasn’t until the 1960s that methodical research into dolphin communication ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Laela Sayigh is a Senior Research Specialist on Cetacean ...