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Singing Dolphins Do Batman
The results of two scientific studies have shown that dolphins are capable of recognizing rhythms and pitch and are able to reproduce them. In order to best demonstrate this ability the scientists chose the epic, Batman theme song and were able to teach a shortened version to the dolphins who reproduced it in response to certain stimuli.
let me know when they can do "free bird."
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Ugh... the blurb is woefully incorrect. The dolphins didn't sing, and they certaintly didn't sing the Batman themesong. They were trained to respond to the rhythm of one long beat, followed by one short beat. It's quite a stretch to equate this to the old "Batmaaaannn!" catchphrase, much less the song. Perhaps the dolphins are instead brushing up on Morse code in preparation for a DX contest?
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Birds do this too, and elephants, and probable many other animals that you might want to kill time by studying scientifically.
There's some bloody bird outside my bedroom window that has a natural ability to memorize the latest ringtone on my mobile phone whenever I change it. 6am in the morning I jump out of bed thinking my phone is ringing (I'm waiting on some important calls)
Reminds me of this poem
I woke early one morning,
The earth lay cool and still
When suddenly a tiny bird
Perch on my window sill,
He sang a song so lovely
So carefree and so gay,
That slowly all my troubles
Began to slip away.
He sang of far off places
Of laughter and of fun,
It seemed his very trilling,
brought up the morning sun.
I stirred beneath the covers
Crept slowly out of bed,
And gently lowered the window
And crushed his little head.
I am not a morning person
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So... where's the MP3?
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What a man in a batsuit and a sea creature do together is their business and they can tape it and post it on the internet if they want to
So, the dolphins can "sing" the Batman theme... I wonder how long it will take before they start "singing" "So Long And Thanks For All The Fish"
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Somewhere, an ornithologist read that article and died inside...
Am I the only one who thinks they should have taught them "So long and thanks for all the fish"?
My rantings, only longer and with better spelling..
... assuming flipper has a sense of humour he'll also laugh his head off as the swimmers run screaming up the shore.
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Thd scientists asked the dolphins about tunes and they thought the question was about tuna so they all signed up.
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Screw that! you know the next step is to hook these dolphins up to sentry robots armed with machine guns. Yeah, who's laughing now, sharks with frickin laser beams strapped to their heads?
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I-Tuna is just around the corner..
"Dolphins are highly intelligent aquatic mammals that are closely related to whales and porpoises."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin
Yes, you may be right with regard to "delphinic". But the stupidity involved in regarding dolphins as fish beats my ignorance with regard to the English language.
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I'm just asking.
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“Delphin” is actually closer to the original Greek delphin, Latin delphinus; if you had your OED handy, you'd see that it was used right up until the seventeenth century* when “dolphin” took over under the influence of Louis XV.
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* 1633 P. FLETCHER Pisc. Ecl. VII. xiii. 47 The lively Delphins dance, and brisly Seales give eare.
They are pretty damn smart.
:)
I've worked with them, and have good friends that have worked with them more than I have.
A couple of 'cool' facts:
When you meet someone for the first time, you shake their hand and look them in the eye, right?
Dolpins 'beam' you with their 'sonar'. They tend to think that people with an implant (pacemaker), screws or pins (from surgery), etc. are 'cooler' because they are different from most humans they meet.
They can tell if a woman is pregnant, often before she knows herself, and they understand what it means. One friend of mind works with some 'wild' dolphins in the Florida keys. Every once in awhile they'll get a new researcher (female) and a lot of the female dolphins will be very gentle near her, and rub her belly with their noses (i.e. being very affectionate). The 'old hands' from the research team will always tell the new lady that she's pregnant. New lady will always say 'no way'. The dolphins are invariably correct.
'FYI'.
I, for one, welcome our new sea overlords. ;)
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Yes, I admit that I was too fast on "delphinic" (not doing any research on that), but I was too much aroused by the notion that dolphins are "fish". (English is not my first language, so I should not discuss. I know. Experience, however, leads me to the conclusion that I usually win. This time I failed. Hard luck, but a gain anyway.)
"So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish"
Excuses,
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Nuh-nuha, Nuh-nuha, Nuh-nuha, Nuh-nuha, Leader!
Na na na na... fishing.. I mean Batman!
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Surely the theme tune from Flipper would have been more appropriate?
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Screw that! Let's hook them up with sonar and lasers.
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Repeat a few tunes from Batman? ha!
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Oh no, not the electrodes again!
... BATMAN!
Dananananaanana
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No, living in the water makes them aquatic. They don't have gills or lay eggs.
However, if they were reporting dolphings jumping backwards through a hoop while whistling the Star-Spangled Banner, then I'd be concerned.
so because we can fly in aeroplanes, does that make us birds? Or because we can swim, does that make us fish too?
I don't know. Do birds fly in planes? Is that what makes them bords? If so then yes we probably are birds. I don't think they do though. If we had evolved wings then we'd be birds.
And to clarify, by "live in the sea", I mean "evolved to live in the sea". Since a swimmer is not evolved to live in the sea, nad tpyically lives on the land, they're not fish.
I'm not American. Apart from that, I agree on all points:)
I'm just sayin'..
I use friend/foe to signal strong [dis]agreement instead of mod points. What else are f/f good for?
Fish.
However, rational argument does not apply no more.
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And ad hominem attacks are generally seen as a sign of someone unskilled in the art of debate.
Welcome to the offspring of a lawyer or such, our new overlords.
They can turn mammals into fish. Now what do you expect they can do with open source?
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TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
to get them to sing "So Long And Thanks For All The Fish" from the Hitchhikers movie?
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Yes, butterflies=birds. Smoke along.
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TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
I would have preferred another song, better suited for dolphins.
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For sure they won't ever become so stupid. [VR-1988]
I'm not American. Apart from that, I agree on all points:)
I just missed the ":)" (about to prepare a flame). You beat me, however, I am not in a real good condition. No real insult intended, though. OOps. BTW, just curious like a cat, what nationality?
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TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/05/18/dolphin_sk in/
I'm just sayin'..
Do not be shy!
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TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
according to the aquatic ape theory that is now gaining acceptance, we did spend a goodly period of our evolution as coast bound amphibians after diverging from the chimpanzees.
/., google for it.
And no, I'm not providing links and exhaustive proof, this is
also, birds frequently fly in planes, does that make them people?
So? That means we're amphibians. Not fish.
I'm not quite sure why you're asking about what makes birds birds. Humans were around a long time before the plane was invented, and birds aren't fish either and wouldn't be even if they could fly a plane.
So long, and thanks for all the fish. Duh.
Bite my shiny metal ass.
i've seen debbie actually doing dallas but i don't know what that has to do with dolphins, except perhaps a lingering fishy smell.
to be honest I can't even remember what the original question was....
:-)
Although we have established that you've got something against birds....
Is it just me, or does the PI's name sound like a character in a computer game: "Heidi Harley".
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actually, the dolphins were singing: "Nah-nah-nah-nah nah nah nah fishing. Fishing. Fishing..."
IS that you, Ace Ventura?
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That was cool. Thanks for the link, it's going straight into the bookmarks.
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In order to best demonstrate this ability the scientists chose the epic, Batman theme song and were able to teach a shortened version to the dolphins who reproduced it in response to certain stimuli.
I don't know why, but this conjures up an image of a dolphin, covered with electrodes, tied to a chair in a dingy room with bad lighting, kind of like Morpheus in the hands of Agent Smith:
Scientist: "Come on. Sing, you rotten fish. Sing it. Na-na Na-na Na-na Na-na BATMAAAN!"
Dolphin: "[weary dolphin sound]"
Scientist: "I'm very disappointed" - reaches for button - Zzzapp!
Dolphin writhes in pain and slumps when the current stops.
Scientist: "Let's try it again, shall we? Na-na Na-na Na-na Na-na BATMAAAN!"
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
ah, well, never try to do anything that might annoy something capable of killing a shark with one prod if its nose, that's the thing...
I would think it would be more hilarious to teach them the Jaws theme song, but maybe that's just me.
It swims, it's got fins, it lives in the sea, yeah it's a fish.
Dolphins are delicious with some mayonnaise and rye bread.
Whoever owns the rights to the Batman song should be filing suit any minute now... take the dolphins for all the tuna they have.
There are dolphins that are fish though: http://indian-river.fl.us/fishing/fish/dolphin.htm l, which is quite confusing. Those dolphins (the fish ones) are obviously not the mammals in the story though.
Or, to add a bad car analogy: Saying that a dog is smarter than a dolphin makes about as much sense as saying that a dual core processor is faster than a Porsche.
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He meant fishy. As in "There's no way they could teach normal dolphins to sing Batman so there must be something fishy about this ones".
Saying that dolphins are fish is like saying that bats are birds!
[Though some birds are actually mammals, but that's a whole different class of birds]
They are the 2nd smartest beings on the planet. Humans are the 3rd. I'm betting mice are the 1st... we only thing we are testing them, its the other way around.
You mad
The one time Batman's batteries went dead...
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This is just further proof that the average Slashdotter cannot define anything without resorting to Wikipedia... and I'm guilty of that myself.
...tuna dolphin?
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I also hear of marriages to snakes and dogs.
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You know who else doesn't get British humour? Dolphins.
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I guess since Batman is owned by Warner Bros. can we expect the WB v. Disney lawsuit any day now? Or perhaps since the "song" is from the TV series, Fox will sue Disney for using their Batman meme ("Batmaaaaan" -- not even the whole song).
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Or they're asking for food: "Na-na na-na na-na na-na, fish me..."
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Meh!
Let me know when they can do the JAWS theme.
Imagine swimming in Florida waters and just hearing the JAWS theme with fins approaching you...
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Whats next, dolphins who can read engrish without laughing?
Also, did anyone listen to the audio sample? It sounds about as much like the Batman theme song as someone torturing a gaggle of bats.
I for one welcome our new dolphin musical overlords!
The Dangermouse theme tune was more epic in the true sense of the word.
"A.K.A. I AM BATMAN!"
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Holy tuna fish Batman, they are singing our song.
Coming soon to an ocean near you! Flipper sings 'Singing in the Rain'
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B) Won't somebody PLEASE think about the children?!?!
C) Something about welcoming our schizophrenic, likes-to-play-dress-up, beastilic-tendency-having overlords?
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Which will ultimately end up like "Who are the food police?".
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TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
And no, I'm not providing links and exhaustive proof, this is /., google for it.
Rather an optimistic assumption regarding capabilities.
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TaijiQuan (Huang, 5 loosenings)
My optimism is at a peak, I just got sound working in gentoo linux....
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