The Happy Pod: The dolphins who 'smile' at their friends

快乐豆荚:对朋友“微笑”的海豚

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2024-11-23

27 分钟
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Researchers have found that just as we smile at friends, dolphins change their expression too while interacting. Also: the college baseball star with a prosthetic leg and the first robotic double lung transplant.
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  • You're listening to the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

  • I'm Janet Jaleel and in this edition we hear about a surprising similarity between us and dolphins.

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  • Researchers have found that just as we smile at friends, dolphins change their expressions too.

  • When they're interacting, they can often be observed playing with objects and chasing each other, seemingly just for the fun of it.

  • Now, researchers have found that bottlenose dolphins have an open mouth expression that they use to communicate with each other during like a human smile.