Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Submerged Human

Re:Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Subme... by baxter001 on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @03:38PM (#10699301)

Simply because it's possible to deconvolve a dolphins sonar clicks into a 2 dimensional representation approximating our visual senses doesn't mean they have any such similar experience of it, on top of that, the whole linguistic angle seems to be wild speculation.

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Re:Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Subme... by jey on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @04:02PM (#10699494)

No, but it would be the same information content -- the dolphin's subjective experience of the signal could be different, but this representation shows us (humans) the information in the signal.

Anyway, this SpeakDolphin.com and "CymaScope" thing is clearly bullshit: https://www.cymascope.com/

Looks like they're maybe gearing up to sell 3D prints of bullshit? http://www.speakdolphin.com/pressRelease/Press_Release_3D_Pr...

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Re:Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Subme... by colanderman on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @04:02PM (#10699490)

I cannot find it now, but there was some recent study that showed that dolphins can emit clicks which match echolocation returns, in essence communicating "images" to each other. Presumably this is what they're referring to.

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Re:Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Subme... by amalag on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @04:43PM (#10699789)

I think that is an urban legend at this point. I also heard this claim from a colleague. When I did research I found nothing of the sort.

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Re:Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Subme... by bammmmm on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @11:53AM (#10704852)

jup, all they did was recording an impulse response of some click, which happened to be a dolphins.

Nothing about dolphin communication (I can't even find a reference in the press realease on the strange dolpin website linked in the article)

edit: I really hoped to lear, that dolphins speak in sonograms :)

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