Bottlenose dolphins communicate with their young by varying their whistles in the same way that human parents modulate their voices: with higher pitches and a greater variety of tone. Host Marco Werman describes how a new study of child-directed-communication in dolphins may provide a powerful animal model for studying the evolution of vocal learning and language.
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