Bottlenose dolphins use 'baby-talk' with their calves

Dolphin moms use baby talk to call to their young, recordings show - Grand Forks Gazette

You know instantly when someone is speaking to an infant or small child. It turns out that dolphin mothers also use a kind of high-pitched baby talk.

Dolphin moms use baby talk to call to their young, recordings show - West Hawaii Today

WASHINGTON — You know instantly when someone is speaking to an infant or small child. It turns out that dolphin mothers also use a kind of high-pitched baby talk.

Bottlenose dolphins use 'baby-talk' with their calves

Just as humans often modify our speech and use 'baby-talk' when talking to babies, a new study finds that bottlenose dolphins do the same with their young.

Dolphin mothers use 'baby talk' with offspring, study finds

A study conducted over the course of decades found that signature noises bottlenose dolphins make are altered by mothers when speaking to calves.

Dolphin mothers use ‘baby talk’ with their calves, recordings show

Study of bottlenose dolphins over 30 years has found that a mother’s whistle pitch is higher and her range greater when directed at her calvesThey socialise, play and display unique personality traits like humans. And now it has been discovered that dolphins do something else that people do – they coo to their babies.A study published on Monday found that female bottlenose dolphins change their tone when addressing their calves, using a kind of …

Dolphins use baby talk when communicating with calves, study finds

A study published Monday found that bottlenose dolphin mothers use a kind of high-pitched baby talk with their calves.