Beneath the Blue Page #4

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Yup.

Yeah, not as nice

as it could have been, though.

What - what are

you talking about?

I mean, you have

another chance tomorrow.

Oh, I didn't invite him

for me,

I invited him for you.

Despite all attempts

at inappropriate innuendo,

he looked at you

the whole time.

(Liz)

His eyes was

all over you, girl.

(Kita)

Mmm hmm.

Really?

Wait, how one girl

could be so smart

and so dumb

at the same time.

(Kita) I know.

(Liz) I don't get it.

I don't either.

I don't

get it.

You're serious?

You're not messing with me?

Yes, yes,

he was looking at you.

He likes you.

(Liz)

Yeah, come on.

(Sonar echoing underwater)

(Alyssa)

Our goal here is to communicate

with dolphins,

but that's hard

because they aren't suited

for making human sounds,

and half their sounds they make

are at frequencies

we can't even hear.

So, the sound you hear

is a recall pinger.

Um, it's what we use

to call the dolphin's home.

Do they always come home?

(Alyssa)

Well, not always.

It's their choice,

but most of the time they do.

(Dolphins whistling)

(Recall pinger)

(Girl)

Look!

(Dolphins whistling)

(Alyssa)

That's Bogie on the left

and Bacall on the right.

They are called

bottlenose dolphins,

or Tursiops truncatus.

So, if we want to communicate

with them,

but we can't make

their sounds,

and they can't make ours,

we have a problem, don't we?

So, we had to come up

with another kind of sound

we could both use

in order to communicate.

Does anybody know

what that might be?

(Girl)

Whistling?

(Alyssa)

Exactly!

So, we use

a made up whistle language

in order to communicate

with them.

And this is

our current vocabulary.

And, as we teach a new word,

it's added to our dictionary.

(Dolphin whistling)

(Alyssa)

Oh, oh, it looks like

Bacall went away.

Let's ask Bogie

where he went.

Bogie, where is Bacall?

(Computer whistling)

(Bogie whistling)

(Female computer voice)

Bacall is catching fish.

This kind of fish?

(Computer whistling)

(Bogie whistling)

(Female computer voice)

No. Dangerous.

(Group chuckles)

(Man)

Come on, you can't expect us

to believe

you're actually having

a conversation with a fish?

Did you hear that,

he called you a fish,

and doesn't believe

we can communicate with you.

(Bogie makes farting noise)

(Group laughs)

(Teenage girl)

What's he saying?

Um, I don't know.

We haven't really been able to

translate dolphin swearing yet.

(Man)

Oh, come on, I mean--

So where does this

all lead?

I mean, what are you guys

hoping to accomplish?

Well, they're intelligent,

we know that,

and very self-aware.

So, by communicating with them,

we can see

how they perceive the world

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