Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) produce individually distinctive signature whistles
that broadcast the identity of the caller. Unlike voice cues that affect all calls of an animal …

Both human and nonhuman organisms are sensitive to statistical regularities in sensory
inputs that support functions including communication, visual processing, and sequence …

In animal communication research, vocal labeling refers to incidents in which an animal
consistently uses a specific acoustic signal when presented with a specific object or class of …

Bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops cf. aduncus, in Shark Bay, Western Australia exhibit the most
complex alliances known outside of humans. Advances in our understanding of these …

Long-term social memory is important, because it is an ecologically relevant test of cognitive
capacity, it helps us understand which social relationships are remembered and it relates …

Human evolution has clearly been shaped by gene–culture interactions, and there is
growing evidence that similar processes also act on populations of non-human animals …

Any signal must get from a sender to a receiver if information is to be transmitted. In the case
of bird song, the acoustic properties of the habitat may hinder this being achieved. However …

Vocal learning is relatively common in birds but less so in mammals. Sexual selection and
individual or group recognition have been identified as major forces in its evolution. While …

The bottlenose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, is one of very few animals that, through vocal
learning, can invent novel acoustic signals and copy whistles of conspecifics. Furthermore …

Bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) have individually distinctive signature whistles.
Each individual dolphin develops its own unique frequency modulation pattern and uses it to …