Sharing Dolphingemma with the research community
Recognizing the value of cooperation in the scientific discovery, we plan to share Dolphingemma as an open model this summer. During the dolphins trained in Atlantic Dolphin, we anticipate its potential utility for scientists studying other species of valeius, such as boutonose dolphins or spinner. Tuning can be required for vocalization of various species, and the open nature of the model facilitates this adaptation.
By providing tools such as Dolphingemma, we hope that we will provide researchers around the world to tools to extract our own acoustic data sets, accelerate the search for patterns and to deepen our understanding of these clever maritime mammals.
The journey to understand dolphin communication is long, but the combination of dedicated field research conducted by WDP, engineering knowledge of Georgia Tech and the power of Google technology opens novel exhilarating possibilities. We not only listen. We begin to understand patterns in sounds, paving the way for the future, in which the gap between human and dolphin communication can simply be slightly smaller.
You can learn more about Wild Dolphin project on their website.