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Could we speak the language of dolphins?

Denise Herzing · TED

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About

For 28 years, Denise Herzing has spent five months each summer living with a pod of Atlantic spotted dolphins, following three generations of family relationships and behaviors. It's clear they are communicating with one another -- but is it language? Could humans use it too? She shares a fascinating new experiment to test this idea.

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Institution
TED
Department
TED2013
Speaker
Denise Herzing
Year
2013
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Computer science, Psychology and the brain, Society and politics, Languages and linguistics
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
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