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Episode: "Dolphins Have Names and They Gossip"

Somewhere in the ocean right now, a dolphin is saying someone's name.

Not a sound we taught it. Not a trick we trained it to do. A name it invented for itself — as a baby — and has never changed.

And somewhere nearby, another dolphin just heard that name. And answered.

We thought names were ours. We thought talking about people behind their back was ours. We thought remembering a friend after twenty years of silence was ours.

Turns out — dolphins have been doing all of it. For millions of years. In the dark, in the deep, with no audience.

Until now.

In this episode of The Animal, we go into one of the most surprising discoveries in the study of animal minds — an ...