Test Your Knowledge Of Animal Intelligence With This Fact-Packed Quiz!

Mason Zimmer|Animals|13 Oct 2023

Why do bottlenose dolphins click and squeak at each other?

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A dolphin swims in a pool of the Planete Sauvage zoologic park in Saint-Père-en-Retz, western France on February 9, 2023.
Retry Correct Incorrect In a 2021 article in the Royal Society Open Science journal, bottlenose dolphins were found to use a complicated communication system that involved timed whistles to cooperate during a button-pushing task. In the experiment in question, even a one-second delay constituted a failure in the task. However, the dolphins worked together with enough precision to succeed anyway.
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Why do bottlenose dolphins click and squeak at each other?

  • They’re just constantly arguing over petty matters
  • They coordinate and solve complicated problems together
  • They’re warning each other of dangerous predators
  • They’re shooing each other away from food sources
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