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Informations - Communications
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Sound Production
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Dolphins are sonic beings.
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Dolphins particularly at night must rely on their sound production and reception to navigate, communicate, hunt and avoid danger.
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Dolphins produce sound for communication and navigation.
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Dolphins produce their sounds by moving air in the nasal passages.
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Dolphins produce clicks, moans, and whistles, trills grunts and squeaks.
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Communications
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Dolphin language is both verbal and non-verbal.
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Many details of the dolphin language are yet to be understood.
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Dolphin's verbal language is known to consist of over 1600 sounds, the English language has only 44 sounds.
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Dolphins also use body language for communication.
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Dolphins also receive images through echolocation and in this sense have a communal sense of communication.
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Echolocation
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Dolphins echolocate by producing and projecting clicking sounds and receiving and interpreting the resulting echoes.
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Dolphins can determine size, shape, direction, speed, internal structure, and the surface of objects in water by echolocation.
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Dolphins produce low frequency sounds for a broad interpretation of their environment and high frequency sounds for a more detailed examination of specific objects.
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Dolphins can increase sound in frequency until it reaches the finite limits of sound where it turns to pure heat energy.
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Dolphins may deliberate prey with this acoustic weapon.
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Dolphins can view the inside of objects like a sonogram x-ray.
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