Dolphin Whistle Species Recognition - Dolphin Quest Bermuda

My name is Vincent Janik. I'm a professor of biology at the University of St. Andrews and I'm also the director of the Scottish Oceans Institute, which is the interdisciplinary institute for marine sciences at the University of St. Andrews. So I mainly work on marine mammal communication and underwater acoustics and in that kind of general field I'm particularly interested in communication in bottlenose dolphins. And now I'm here with Julie Oswald What we're trying to understand is whether dolphins are using their the whistle sounds that they make to identify species so that can they tell one species from another based on the sounds that they make. Our lab at the University of St. Andrews has a long history with dolphin quest has been working with dolphin quest for quite some time. I think this is the third project that we've done with dolphin quest and so it was a natural place to come and do it because we've had such good experiences here with the people and the animals.