all right. well, this weekend, our new franchise, the science behind where we explore the why behind the what. today s story is where science meets pretty adorable. a new dolphin study says dolphins don t just communicate with the clicks, whistles, those buzzing noises that you hear. they actually call each other by unique names, kind of like humans. our chad myers has the details. reporter: we ve known for dwleers every dolphin has a specific and distinctive whistle, but now scientists believe that this sound they re calling out is actually a name. can you do your signature whistle? reporter: to better under the science behind dolphin language, marine biologists used underwater recorders to track the signature whistles, hoping to unlock secrets to now mos mammals communicate. the new study out of great
here every weekend called the science behind what we hope to teach you the why behind the what and this week s installment we re taking you into the water where a new study about dolphins and how they communicate will blow you away, guaranteed. i love this story. here is cnn s chad myers with all the details. reporter: we ve known for years that every dolphin has a specific and distinctive whistle but now scientists believe that this sound they re calling out is actually a name. can you do your signature whistle? reporter: to better understand the science behind dolphin language, marine biologists use underwater recorders to track the signature whistles hoping to unlock secrets to how these mammals communicate. the new study out of great britain shows similarities between dolphin whistles and human communication. do these dolphins talk to each other? yes. they do interact with each other vocally. they use sounds to communicate. what the sounds mean we don t entirely know. r
scientists took underwater recording devices to record and track the wild dolphins and then they played those whistles back to the dolphins who own them. hear are some of the sounds. [ dolphins ] here is the cool thing. when the dolphins heard the names that were called back to them, they responded. when they heard their name, right? kind of like that was their signature. hey, i m here. well, the strange dolphins didn t reply. but their family and friends also replied to the same whistle. so the theory is dolphins can learn each other s whis i wills and mimic them to communicate with each other. they say the findings draw parallels between human language and dolphin language because only humans and parrots and now apparently dolphins can take in new sounds and differentiate