A new study has found that mother bottlenose dolphins use a higher pitch when communicating with their offspring, similar to how human mothers use "baby talk" with their babies. The study was conducted off the coast of Sarasota, Florida, with mother-calf pairs in a controlled environment. Spectrograms were used to analyze the dolphins' vocalizations, showing that the whistling directed at the Calves had lower lows and higher highs. The researchers believe that the high-pitched communication helps the calves identify their mother's whistle in a pod of dolphins. This study could pave the way for future research on baby speech in other animal vocalizations.

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