Flora Lichtman
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Podcast Appearances
We have a recording that you took of a mother and her calf.
Let's listen to it.
They were slowed down.
I was wondering because I was like, this is actually, this sounds a lot like me begging my kids to get their shoes on.
But that makes sense.
It's slowed down.
Let's listen again.
Let's listen again.
Do we know why mothers change their whistles around their babies?
Well, how do you know that what they're saying is what you think they're saying?
I mean, I don't... Well, even the signature whistles, like if I were a dolphin and a human being were attaching a microphone to my head with a suction cup, I don't know that I'd be like, flora, flora, flora, flora.
I mean, graduating from 101, if I were taking intermediate dolphin whistle, are there other types of whistles that you've identified?
We have an example of one.
Let's hear it.
One more time.
Do all of these sounds constitute a language?