Quote of the Day

"Humans must take the first step to establish relationships with the first intelligent inhabitants of the planet Earth by creating devices capable of overcoming the barriers that stand in the way of using languages and in the way of communications between dolphins and people."—Dr. Vyacheslav Ryabov, lead researcher on a study which has discovered "that dolphins alter the volume and frequency of pulsed clicks to form individual 'words' which they string together into sentences in much the same way that humans speak."

This is so immensely fascinating, and I highly recommend reading the whole article!


[Video Description: Video of dolphins underwater, talking to each other with clicks and squeaks.]

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