A Device to Let Dolphins Speak in the Air
Did you know that scientists devised a devise to enable dolphins echolocate in the air? A method to enable a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) to echolocate while out of water In theory, this would allow them to use their “click” language to “speak” to humans standing outside the water. That’s not what it was developed for, exactly. The immediate goals of the scientist were much more modest. It’s hard to study dolphin echolocation precisely in their natural environment, so the team wanted to be able to measure echolocation clicks out of the water. They set up a Death Star for the dolphins to target with their clicks. Because of course they did. What they found is that there was a regular corellation between the aerial “echos” of the clicks that they measured and the clicks underwater, making this system viable for measuring dolphin echolocation. Does this bring us one step closer to a Startide Rising scenario, as in Dav...