Denise Herzing: Do Dolphins Have A Language?
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Friday, August 16, 2019
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Denise Herzing on the TED stage.
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Part 2 of the TED Radio Hour episode Anthropomorphic
About Denise Herzing's TED Talk
We know that dolphins make distinctive clicks and whistles. But is that a language? Researcher Denise Herzing thinks it might be — and for the past 35 years — she's been working on unlocking it.
About Denise Herzing
Denise Herzing is the founder and research director of the Wild Dolphin Project, which strives to understand the social structure, behavior, communication, and habitats of dolphins outside the confines of an aquarium or research facility.
For more than 30 years, she has spent each summer observing a pod of Atlantic spotted dolphins in the Bahamas. Her team joined forces with Georgia Tech to build a wearable that allowed them to better understand dolphin language.
Herzing is the author of the 2011 book Dolphin Diaries. And she is also is an assistant affiliate professor at Florida Atlantic University.
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