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 - Boundary Creek Times

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.