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1 posted on 05/10/2006 5:01:41 AM PDT by S0122017
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2 posted on 05/10/2006 5:01:54 AM PDT by S0122017
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The dolphins' distinctive whistles may function as individual calling cards, allowing them to recognize each other and even refer to others by name.

Isn't that what the Duke lacrosse players did?
3 posted on 05/10/2006 5:04:04 AM PDT by Krankor (kROGER)
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This isn't news, Don Shula trained his players to do this long LONG time ago. When Shula retired, 100 percent of his players were literate and capable of speaking well.

Contrasted with the Oakland Raiders. LOL


4 posted on 05/10/2006 5:04:24 AM PDT by mkjessup (The Shah doesn't look so bad now, eh? But nooo, Jimmah said the Ayatollah was a 'godly' man.)
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although the assumption that they possess fully formed language has never been proved

Rather we're not smart enough to figure it out.

5 posted on 05/10/2006 5:04:43 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (I think the border is kind of an artificial barrier - San Antonio councilwoman Patti Radle)
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I heard about this last week. Amazing! Thanks for posting.


6 posted on 05/10/2006 5:04:45 AM PDT by fatnotlazy
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Are any of the names dirty - Hey!! Mother flipper.


7 posted on 05/10/2006 5:05:57 AM PDT by DManA
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While diving off the coast of Cozumel some years back, we ran into a pod of about 15 to 20 dolphins. Several of them came right up to us - just barely beyond arm's reach - and spewed those clicks and whistles right at us for a minute or so (I later read that these were the "scouts" in the pod).

Anyway it was both terrifying and exciting, I was actually trying to yell at them through my respirator (strange). The diving instructor I was with said he'd never seen dolphins come so close to divers.

The aftereffects of this encounter lasted for days, and were far too odd to describe here.

A couple days later I took a jet ski out to another pod off the beach (about 100-200 yards) and had some fun with two dolphins which swam on either side of the bow, no matter how fast I went. Actually it was clear they were trying to steer me away from the rest of the pod about 25 to 50 yards further out.


10 posted on 05/10/2006 5:11:46 AM PDT by angkor
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where dolphins can all see each other, they drop out of the repertoire almost entirely, replaced by other whistles with meanings that remain enigmatic.

On land, we call this "closing time."

13 posted on 05/10/2006 5:59:41 AM PDT by monkey
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The family dogs & parrots recognize the school bus and the Chevy S-10 'signature' and get animated & vocal cause they know the kids will be bursting thru the front door any minute. And, if the parrots are separated from one another in the house, they squawk back & forth to one another.

Not unusual because dogs, most birds and dolphins are all social creatures...packs, flocks, pods.


14 posted on 05/10/2006 6:04:40 AM PDT by elli1
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They are still trying to find out the name of their running back. RIIICKKY has some short term memory problems again this season, and won't respond to audibles.
16 posted on 05/10/2006 6:21:20 AM PDT by Waverunner
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Underwater whistles give bottlenoses their own moniker.

Nautical Organization of Women will probably sue for harassment.

22 posted on 05/10/2006 8:25:45 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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