Observational Learning in Wild and Captive Dolphins
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Captive dolphins, Tursiops truncatus, develop signature whistles that match acoustic features of human-made model sounds.
This paper presents a cross-sectional study testing whether dolphins that are born in aquarium pools where they hear trainers' whistles develop whistles that are less frequency modulated than those of wild dolphins. Ten pairs of captive and wild dolphins were matched for age and sex. Twenty whistles were sampled from each dolphin. Several traditional acoustic features (total duration, duration ...
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