Dolphins have Amazing Hearts! ❤️💖🙏🏻

Sometimes we just underestimate animals. If only they could speak 💗

A study published Monday found that bottlenose dolphin mothers use a kind of high-pitched baby talk with their calves.
When speaking to young kids, humans often use squeaky, high-pitched baby talk. It turns out that some dolphins do, too.

Researchers report June 26 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. This “parentese” might enhance attention, bonding and vocal learning in calves, as it seems to do in humans.

The researchers examined 40 instances of each dolphin’s signature whistle, verified by the unique way each vocalization’s frequencies change over time. Half of each dolphin’s whistles were voiced in the presence of her baby. When youngsters were around, the moms’ whistles contained, on average, a higher maximum and slightly lower minimum pitch compared with those uttered in the absence of calves, contributing to an overall widened pitch range.

When their babies are around, bottlenose dolphin moms modify their signature whistles to include higher pitches and a wider pitch range than normal.

And although researchers speculate dolphin parentese could have the same functions as in human speech, no one can be certain “until the day we can ask the dolphins what they’re actually doing.

The dolphin species would have become the dominant intelligence of the planet if humans didn’t develop as they did. So interesting 🤔
They are amazing, loving, wonderful creatures. We can learn a lot from them!

Watch the precious video below: