Captive Bottlenose Dolphins Do Discriminate Human-Made Sounds Both Underwater and in the Air

Captive Bottlenose Dolphins Do Discriminate Human-Made Sounds Both Underwater and in the Air

Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) spontaneously emit individual acoustic signals that identify them to group members. We tested whether these cetaceans could learn artificial individual sound cues played underwater and whether they would generalize this learning to airborne sounds. Dolphins a...

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Main Authors: Alice Lima, Mélissa Sébilleau, Martin Boye, Candice Durand, Martine Hausberger, Alban Lemasson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
individual-specific sound cue
individual identity
cetacean
auditory perception
bottlenose dolphins
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00055/full

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