(Dolphins noises)

Dolphins are curious.

Except stinkin' dolphins.

My brothers are dolphins.

Now, some of you adults here are saying, What dolphins? What dolphins?

Now, dolphins are natural acousticians.

How many of you here see dolphins? Raise your hand if you see dolphins.

Dolphins and toothed whales use echolocation.

like I described for the dolphins.

Dolphins, pretty big brains, play a lot.

Dolphins. Yeah. They think they're so cute.

Too bad. We taught the dolphins your names.

The dolphins eat the fish that have PCBs from the plankton, and those PCBs, being fat soluble, accumulate in these dolphins.

And the dolphins could get in on the game.

Up come the dolphins, and drop off the rope, yay.

So when dolphins are separating by less than 20 meters,

I study fish, also the bigger things, whales and dolphins.

Next user group are the dolphins at the National Aquarium.

Joining me are three of our eight Atlantic bottlenose dolphins

On the left hand side, there's a new type of mooring, which I'll show you in just a second.

So dolphins can buzz and tickle each other at a distance.

Then we showed it in dolphins, and then later in elephants.

DR We're trying to develop an interactive touch screen for dolphins.

And (Noah) said Embark. In the name of God be its course and mooring. My Lord is surely forgiving and kind.

PCBs accumulate in dolphins in Sarasota Bay, in Texas, in North Carolina.

Here's a diagram of the PCB load of dolphins in Sarasota Bay.

So dolphins are also political animals, so they have to resolve conflicts.

What I wanted to do was give the dolphins choice and control.

The dolphins are pretty intrigued as to what's going on here tonight.

Better still, you could crossbreed them with dolphins and have leaping mutton!

And he said Embark therein! In the name of Allah be its course and its mooring. Lo! my Lord is Forgiving, Merciful.

They're outside the dolphin's normal repertoire, but they're easily mimicked by the dolphins.

From whales being entangled, dolphins, turtles, etc., being choked and drowned to albatross

Well, CHAT is designed specifically to empower the dolphins to request things from us.

The first thing that got me interested in the sounds of these underwater animals, whose world was so foreign to me, was evidence from captive dolphins that captive dolphins could imitate human sounds.

Dolphins aren't the only animals, the only non human animals, to show mirror self recognition.

So what you see in this particular ambiguous figure is, of course, the dolphins, right?

You might as well take an ax and go chop up a family of dolphins.

A 3D animation of a number of sharks, dolphins, and whales. Written by Mark Kilgard 1998.

She's 35 years old in this shot, but dolphins can actually live into their early 50s.

Now, in the Bahamas, we also have resident bottlenose that interact socially with the spotted dolphins.

Now, I want to return to dolphins, because these are the animals that I feel like

Now, Atlantic spotted dolphins are a really nice species to work with for a couple of reasons.

Now, these are bottlenose dolphins, and you'll see them starting to synchronize their behavior and their sounds.

And two boats When the second boat was added, what happened was that some of the dolphins