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"Herzing’s goal is to get a handful of juvenile females she has known since birth to associate each of three whistle sounds broadcast by the CHAT box with a spe
by thret 11y ago
"Herzing’s goal is to get a handful of juvenile females she has known since birth to associate each of three whistle sounds broadcast by the CHAT box with a specific object: a scarf, a rope, and a piece of [brown seaweed]."
I don't see how a dolphin can be expected to know what a scarf is. Helen Keller's first word was 'water'. Something she understood completely. If they'd tried to teach her 'guitar' she may not have gotten anywhere.
- scribu 11y ago> I don't see how a dolphin can be expected to know what a scarf is. Nobody has that expectation. It's possible that dolphins already have sounds associated with familiar objects (like seaweed), which might interfere with learning a new sound. Hence the use of a foreign object.