Can
Dolphins Help Us Talk To Extraterrestrials?
For 27 years, marine biologist Denise Herzing and
colleagues have been regular visitors in the Atlantic
Ocean home of a 200-member pod of spotted dolphins
living north of the Bahama Islands. Understanding the
relationships between the members of the pod is key to
unraveling what their dozens of whistles, clicks and
other signals mean. "The large goal of this
project is to tell the story of what it's like to be a
dolphin," Herzing, a researcher with Florida
Atlantic University in Boca Raton and the founder and
head of the Wild Dolphin Project, told Discovery News.
But being a curious and intelligent species, the
dolphins weren't content to just let the scientists
take their underwater videos and record their sounds.