Dolphins Invented Their Own Whistle

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1. 0:00SCIENTISTS GAVE DOLPHINS A KEYBOARD. Humans once gave dolphins a keyboard!
2. 0:03Press the triangle, get a ball. Press the triangle, and a computer whistles. That whistle meant ball!
3. 0:09Something nobody taught them. Then two young dolphins did something nobody taught them.
4. 0:12Ball + ring = a new whistle. They mixed the ball whistle and the ring whistle into a brand new one, for a game they made up!
5. 0:18Scientists use AI to decode it. Now scientists are using A.I. to work out what dolphins say.
6. 0:24Snap an animal. But you don't have to wait. Snap an animal…
7. 0:28…and it talks back. We each have our own name whistle! Mine goes up, then wiggles. What's yours?

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