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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Dolphins Name Themselves With Whistles, Study Says


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Bottlenose dolphins swim together near the village of Fagasa in American Samoa.

New research using the recorded sounds of wild dolphins off the Florida coast shows that the marine mammals give themselves signature whistles that act as names.

Photograph by Randy Olson/National Geographic/Getty Images