Sounds and the Ultra-Sounds of the Bottle-Nose Dolphin

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Dolphins are known to have a highly complex system of communication, combining clicks, whistles and ultrasound. Sample these sounds and ultrasounds (frequencies have been lowered to a range audible to the human ear) recorded in the Virgin Islands and Miami, which also include vocal exchanges between human and dolphin. Expert John Lilly narrates.

Keyword(s) Nature; Sound effects

Year of Recording 1973
Record Label Folkways Records
Source Archive Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Credits Produced by John Cunningham Lilly ; Design by Ronald Clyne

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101	Introduction	n/a	2:30
102	Slow clicking and whistles	n/a	1:39
103	Clicking and whistling: slow and fast	n/a	2:48
104	Hydrophone recordings	n/a	2:48
105	How dolphins create sounds	n/a	4:20
106	Dolphins and human voice reproduction	n/a	10:30
107	Dolphins and femal voice response	n/a	7:21
108	Dolphin mimicking	n/a	0:41
109	Dolphin intrepretation	n/a	2:09

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