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Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on May 16th, 2015. I'm Steve Murski.

On this episode, what the dolphins do is they provide these very, very coordinated specific cues to the fishermen to indicate that the fish that the fishermen are looking

for are present.

That's Lee Dugotkin.

He's an evolutionary biologist and behavioral ecologist at the University of Louisville.

He's the author of the book Principles of Animal Behavior, and he's the co-author of an

article in the June issue of scientific American called

The Networked Animal, along with Matthew Hassanjagger, a doctoral candidate in Dugatkin's

lab.

I called Dugatkin to talk about the article.

He recorded his side of the conversation in his office, which is apparently right next to the

Louisville airport.

First, you just got back from Mongolia, which is not a place that most people in the U.S. have visited.

What were you doing there and what was it like?

Yeah, I was there for about eight days, and I have a colleague at the National University of Mongolia. and he had me come over. I gave a couple of

kind of classic research talks on my own work, the kind of things that were going on in my

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