![]() Dolphin researchers suggested that these click bursts are a form of communication that dolphins use when they’re playing or to indicate aggression. Click bursts, or high speed clusters of clicks, are thought to have additional meanings, beyond simply identifying objects. Some scientists also believed that dolphins could use their clicks to transmit information to other dolphins in their vicinity. ![]() The clicking sounds were discovered to be a form of echolocation, using sound to create mental images of the surroundings, which dolphins can use with extreme accuracy, focusing in on one fish in a swarming school, to track elusive prey. When a dolphin is in trouble it sends out a series of these whistling sounds, as if calling for help from friends. Deciphering The Dolphin CodeĮarly on in dolphin research, scientists discovered that each dolphin has an individual whistle that they use to identify themselves, and that other dolphins use to call them in return. It was the most extraordinary thing to see.Dolphins hold hands to communicate affection just like humans do. He added, “It reminded us of that craze a few years ago when people started licking toads to get a buzz, especially the way they hung there in a daze afterwards. After chewing the puffer gently and passing it around, they began acting most peculiarly, hanging around with their noses at the surface as if fascinated by their own reflection.”Īlso Read: Dolphins Can Imitate Humans: Study Rob Pilley, a zoologist, who was also a part of the documentary, explained what the dolphins were actually doing, in a conversation with the Sunday Times, “This was a case of young dolphins purposely experimenting with something we know to be intoxicating. This rather surprising side of the dolphins was captured using spy cameras that were hidden in fake turtles, fish and squid, resulting in 900-hour footage showcasing the dolphins in their natural ways.Īccording to Downer (in a conversation with the Independent), the spy cameras were designed to “infiltrate the dolphin’s hidden lives” by looking like the marine creature they’d come across every day. The documentary showed the fish carefully chewing on the pufferfish and actually passing it among one another like a game of underwater volleyball, after which they appeared to be in a trance-like state.Īlso Read: Rare Dolphins 'Glowing' In Sea At Night Captured By LA Photographer, And It's Amazing It seems like dolphins have figured out how they can control the amount of toxin that’s released. However, for the dolphins, this toxin, according to experts, is known to create a narcotic effect when consumed in smaller amounts. ![]() Puffer fishes are known to contain tetrodotoxin which in small amounts can kill a human within minutes. John Downer, an award-winning documentary filmmaker while shooting a series on dolphins for BBC One (from the year 2013) discovered that dolphins were actually playing and consuming a special kind of pufferfish in a rather strange way to cause it to release a toxin that would get them ‘high’. However, did you know they're smart enough to get high too?Īlso Read: Setting Dolphins Free: Engineers Build Life-Like Robot Dolphin For Aquariums We know dolphins as a rather smart species that have surprised humans at every turn.
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