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Dolphins communicate like humans by calling each other by “name”, scientists in Fife have found.

The mammals are able to recognise themselves and other members of the same species as individuals with separate identities, using whistles.

St Andrews University researchers studying in Florida discovered bottlenose dolphins used names rather than sound to identify each other.

Full Story: BBC.

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Dolphins joined the ranks of humans and great apes by recognizing themselves in mirrors. “Our findings are particularly interesting because dolphins and primates are not closely related. Dolphin and primate brains have evolved along profoundly different lines for over 60 million years.” (link via BoingBoing).

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“U.S. navy dolphins will take part in a NATO exercise to find some of the 80,000 mines and other munitions rusting off Norway’s coast since Germany’s World War Two occupation, officials said on Friday.” Read the story

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