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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsA Captive Beluga Whale Living With Dolphins Swapped Her Language For Theirs
She's just trying to fit in.
MICHELLE STARR 3 NOV 2017
A captive beluga whale has done something amazing: she has seemingly "learned" another language and adopted it over her own.
The whale, then four years old, started making whistling sounds unique to dolphins and dropping her own beluga vocalisations after being housed with bottlenose dolphins for only two months.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Communicating with others is a matter of survival.
Thanks for this ashling!
Amaryllis
(9,524 posts)sl8
(13,653 posts)Thanks for posting.
Link to story:
https://www.sciencealert.com/beluga-whale-bottlenose-dolphin-learns-new-language
It reminds me of this story, from a couple of years ago:
The Story of One Whale Who Tried to Bridge the Linguistic Divide Between Animals and Humans
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/story-one-whale-who-tried-bridge-linguistic-divide-between-animals-humans-180951437/
3catwoman3
(23,939 posts)...fascinating!
StarryNite
(9,433 posts)Thank you for sharing.
Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)Ysabel
(1,736 posts)Rhiannon12866
(204,586 posts)billh58
(6,635 posts)why is such an intelligent creature a "captive?" What was her crime?
relayerbob
(6,532 posts)billh58
(6,635 posts)from the open ocean, her species, and her family.