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

Re:Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Subme... by tzs on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @04:09PM (#10699546)

> In a scientific first, researchers have just reproduced what a dolphin saw as it encountered a male diver.

I wonder why they specified that it was a male diver? Would a dolphin's echolocation be able to tell a male human from a female human? The resolution doesn't look high enough to distinguish external genitalia, but maybe differences in internal composition (such as body fat) might change the character of the echoes sufficiently to distinguish?

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Re:Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Subme... by hanoz on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @05:09PM (#10700005)

I'm, ahem, a bit out of my depth here, but this reads to me like a lossless translation from an original language which inherently expressed the gender. They've done the same thing with "the female dolphin".

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Re:Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Subme... by leephillips on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @05:08PM (#10699992)

There is good evidence that dolphins can see inside other mammals with their sonar and determine if there is a pregnancy. They can get information about your innards.

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Re:Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Subme... by cc_wk on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @04:23PM (#10699632)

Occam's Razor suggests old-fashioned sexism

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Re:Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Subme... by ghurtado on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @05:58PM (#10700412)

I don't follow. How does sexism explain this?

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Re:Image Shows a Dolphin's Echolocated Impression of a Subme... by conceit on Tuesday December 08, 2015 @07:54PM (#10701097)

translation of uselessly gendered pronouns where no neuter exists (as mentioned in another comment) is explained by unawareness to the source language's imprinted sexism.

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