Dolphins have a 'highly advanced' spoken language, study finds

Dolphins can carry on conversations in an advanced spoken language made up of pulses and whistles, a new study has found.

While marine biologists have long understood that dolphins communicate within their pods, the new research, which was conducted on two captive dolphins, is the first to link isolated signals to particular dolphins. The findings reveal that dolphins can string together "sentences" using a handful of "words."

"Essentially, this exchange of [pulses] resembles a conversation between two people," Vyacheslav Ryabov, the study's lead researcher, told Mashable.

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