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Few people now doubt that dolphins can transmit information to each other, that is, they have meaningful speech. According to recent studies, the set of unique sounds made by dolphins is equal in number of elements to the vocabulary that humans use in everyday life.

Dolphins call each other by name. By the way, there is already factual evidence of this - the details of such an appeal were studied by Laela Say from the University of North Carolina and her colleagues from other universities. They claim that dolphins in 9 cases out of 14 respond to synthesized “calls” calling them by “names”, which they themselves leave when communicating with each other as an individual “signature”. Moreover, listening to dolphins showed that two dolphins can talk about a third one, calling him by name. Jack and Donna Kassewitz's "SpeakDolphin" project is compiling a Dolphinier-Human Dictionary. They even compiled a list of questions that they would like to ask the dolphins first.

The sounds that the forty-ton humpback whale makes are very powerful. They literally shake the body of a person who finds himself next to a whale underwater, reverberating “like drums in the chest,” according to one cameraman. There is no doubt that these sounds can serve for very long-distance signaling. Acoustics have shown that in the thickness of sea water at a depth of about 1000 meters there are so-called “sound channels”, through which sound can travel thousands (!) of kilometers, that is, across the entire ocean. Apparently, whales are aware of the existence of these channels and use them to communicate with distant interlocutors in other seas. According to zoologist Christopher Clark, they are capable of having “intimate conversations” at a distance of more than 1000 (!) km.

Jacques Cousteau also listened to the voices of humpback whales while traveling with his comrades on the Calypso. The recordings they made, as Cousteau writes, “...leave no doubt that whales communicate with each other. A call is heard, but an answer comes from afar. Moreover, the sounds alternated, as it should be during a conversation. But this conversation cannot be translated into our language. The voices of humpback whales are different from the voices of any other animals. Their range is much wider, and they are more expressive than bird voices... Perhaps we distinguished up to a thousand different sounds! Timbre, sound strength, frequencies created endless variety. There are trills, and sirens, and something like a mouse squeak. And then suddenly it was like a deer roared. Strange alien sounds... When you listen to the night “conversation” of whales, their ability to communicate with each other seems obvious. It seems that this is not just a series of sounds, that humpback whales are exchanging thoughts and opinions!..”