Dolphins Shocked When I Speak Their Language

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I spent weeks training with some of the world’s top dolphin researchers to learn to speak like a dolphin in order to see if this pod of actual dolphins would accept me as one of their own. It might sound kind of crazy but dolphin researchers are actually just starting to crack the mysteries of dolphin communication and indeed scientists are starting to attempt to communicate with dolphins using their own communication system. So the question is—if I learn their sounds, will they talk back? Or will they just swim away?

Special thanks to Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys for helping me with this video! Dolphin Research Center is a nonprofit that rescues and cares for dolphins that can’t be returned to the wild, and you can visit them at their website dolphins.org, in person in Florida, or consider donating via the QR code in the video, and I’ll also be donating a portion of this video’s sponsorship proceeds as well.

Visit them at: Dolphin Research Center, 58901 Overseas Hwy, Grassy Key, FL 33050

And a very special thanks to the scientists who helped make this video possible:

Professor Vincent Janik, University of St Andrews
Professor Jason Bruck, Stephen F. Austin State University
Dr. Kelly Jaakkola, Dolphin Research Center
Professor Laela Sayigh, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution https://www.whoi.edu/profile/lsayigh/

0:00 Introduction
1:57 Asking dolphin scientists if I can speak to dolphins
6:39 Learning the best way to talk to dolphins
7:12 Heading to Dolphin Research Center
9:08 Dolphins have "signature whistles"
10:45 How dolphins cooperate
15:07 "What are your plans with our dolphins?"
15:51 Meeting the dolphins for the first time
19:23 Trying to give a dolphin a command
22:58 I try imitating a dolphin to see how it will react
26:14 A researcher communicates with dolphins using their language

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