How Do Dolphins Name Each Other? | Nature Bites

Hey guys, welcome to SourceFed. My name is Elliot Morgan. My name is Joe Beretta. Please excuse my voice, I'm a little bit under the weather, but I had to bring you the story about dolphins. My voice is totally fine, but I'm trying to just be on the same level as that guy. The other day I was doing my thing when all of a sudden, as tends to happen, nature called. So I nestled on the john and opened up my latest issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. And as Elliot perused his favorite peer-reviewed journal, he noticed something incredibly tantalizing. A team from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland had discovered something amazing about one of Elliot's favorite animals. You do it. Did you mouth dolphins? I did. Cool. You didn't sense the aura of me mouthing dolphins? I did not. And what did he find? Well, that dolphins can call each other by name. The adorable, elegant underwater mermen use varying types of whistles, and when these whistles were played back to the majestic marine mammals, they responded. Dr. Vincent Janik stated, Dolphins live in this three-dimensional environment, offshore, without any kind of landmark, and they need to stay together as a group. These animals live in an environment where they need a very efficient system to stay in touch. And while this idea that dolphins use whistles in the way humans use names has been suspected Until now. Thanks, science! Most of the time, underwater, dolphins can't see each other, and they certainly can't smell, and it's not like dolphins are going to hang out together because they're dolphins and they've got freaking crap to do. So, when the dolphins' respective whistles were played to them underwater, they responded, just like you would a name. Like this, Joe. Huh? What? What? Yeah, exactly. Tell us what name you would like to go by in the comments section down below. Please like our video, subscribe to the channel, and as always, click this annotation, and it's going to bring you to the rest of our videos. There's a big back catalog. You can check them all out. My name is Joe Beretta. My name is Elliot Morton. Please like our video, subscribe to the channel, and as always click this annotation and it's going to bring you to the rest of our videos, there's a big back catalog you can check them all out. My name is Joe Beretta. My name is Elliot Morton. There's a video that my wife will watch later and she'll go, aww. She'll make a little dolphin sound? Yeah. It'll be full circle. It's like, you're like a dolphin. Oh, okay. You married a dolphin. Yeah, I did.