Dolphins Recorded Having a ‘Conversation?’ Not So Fast

The scientists quoted in this article may be right but they seem to be responding in an overly aggressive manner against a perceived outsider to their field.

> “It is complete bull, and you can quote me,” says Richard Connor

How do you really feel?

> “The Ryabov paper effectively ignores most of what is currently known about the properties of dolphin clicks, how to measure them correctly, and how they are used by animals in various contexts, and instead lays out the author's own ideas for how dolphin communication might work by weaving together some simple observations with various disconnected notions of acoustics, cognition, and language research,” says Lammers.

I guess thinking out of the box is discouraged.

> “Many, many animals across the animal kingdom will avoid signal masking and thus time their vocalizations accordingly...This by no means should be compared to human language” says Stephanie King

What I'm not even allowed to make comparisons.