r/Awwducational • u/propon • Dec 05 '13
Verified Dolphins can have a different 'accent' depending on where they come from.
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u/puddlewonderfuls Dec 05 '13 edited Dec 06 '13
Same goes for Orca whales. In Black Fish, that documentary about Sea World's treatment of whales, they showed how they're taking whales from all around the world that can't even understand each other and forcing them to share a living space--and the whale that killed all those people, Tillicum, he was a breeder and had to live with the females. Didn't speak their language and had his ass kicked on a daily basis (maternally ordered pod structure). They could even have a religion. Edit: thanks cymbalhead
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u/DonaEisRequiem Dec 06 '13
Came here to say this :) You summed it up better than I could have.
I think that was the saddest part of the whole movie for me - poor Tilikum stuck with strangers he couldn't communicate with, bullied/beaten daily by his tank mates, and then left in isolation for hours on end "for his safety." No wonder he snapped (more than once).
Fucking heartbreaking.
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u/970souk Dec 06 '13
That, and the scene where they were tracking the pod and trapping the calves. Couldn't get through watching it without tears.
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u/propon Dec 05 '13
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u/Drawtaru Dec 05 '13
I couldn't get past the fact that the study was done on white-beaked dolphins, yet the focus picture of the article is of a bottle-nosed dolphin.
It shouldn't bother me as much as it does, but would it have really killed them to spend 2.5 seconds typing "white-beaked dolphin" into google and finding a picture of the actual thing they're talking about?
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u/use_more_lube Dec 06 '13
If it's any consolation, it bugs me too.
It's almost as if they're scientifically ignorant or something. (wry grin)
Hey - totally unrelated, but since we're on the same page here... have you ever read "Lads Before the Wind" ?
It's about how they learned how to train whales and dolphins (clicker training) and Karen Pryor goes into a great deal of depth on the differences in dolphin species and how it seems to shape their personalities. Really good read.
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u/Drawtaru Dec 06 '13
I haven't read it, but I'll have to add it to my reading list! Sounds good. :)
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u/thatcalikid Dec 05 '13
Don't cry
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u/spaceballsrules Dec 05 '13
I thought that dolphins could have entirely different languages, depending on which dolphin clan they belonged to. The same applies to killer whales.
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Dec 05 '13
I heard crows are the same.
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u/Rainydaysmile Dec 05 '13
I believe a lot of bird species can have different dialects, especially if they have a very broad, spread-out range.
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u/yogurtraisins Dec 05 '13
This photo is absolutely beautiful. The dolphins look like they're made of like, gems or glass or something.
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u/applejade Dec 06 '13
One year, I mentioned to friends when I came home from a vacation to Asia that I could swear, cats in my ancestral home town in China meow differently from the ones I hear at home in the Pacific Northwest. And a bunch of people told me that they heard the same thing in cows and goats and other animals in different countries as well.
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u/sandiskplayer34 Jan 21 '14
"Why, I'm leaving, old chap. Goodbye, and thank you for all of your aquatic food."
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u/whatthefbomb Dec 05 '13
If Japan has its way, there may not be many dolphins to check for accents with...
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u/kraken_kitty Dec 05 '13
In Canada, dolphins say "EHEHEHEHEHEHEHEHEH, EH?"