Can a dolphin talk? Detailed answer

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Can a dolphin talk?

Recently there have been reports of experiments designed to test the intelligence of brown dolphins and the possibility of trying to make contact with them.

But do you know what a brown dolphin is? It's not a fish, it's a mammal. It belongs to the cetacean family. Like all mammals, they feed their young with milk. Like whales, dolphins breathe through one nostril located on top of their head. When a dolphin floats to the surface, it opens its nostril and takes in air.

Another amazing feature of dolphins is that their tail is in a horizontal position, and not in a vertical position, like all fish. This helps him jump out of the water. We really enjoy watching the graceful movements of dolphins.

So can brown dolphins "talk"? Of course, we mean by the "talk" of animals and birds the imitation of human speech. Because, as we know, most animals communicate with each other in their own way. In some cases, this is a very simple communication, in others, on the contrary, it is very complex, for example, with bees.

Oddly enough, but dolphins really imitate human speech. And they do it of their own accord. For example, in Florida there was a case when a dolphin suddenly reproduced a human voice. He did it so believably that the man's wife, who was nearby, could not help laughing. Then the dolphin repeated her laugh!

It's all about the structure of the vocal cords of dolphins, which allows them to make sounds that resemble human ones. But besides this, it is believed that dolphins are the most intelligent of all animals.

But in order to say that dolphins talk, they must understand how to use words in a meaningful way. But whether this is so, we do not know.

Author: Likum A.

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