Mon. 03/28 - The Hoax Behind Pringles' Mascot's Name
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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff
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🗓️ 28 March 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:33.5 | It's Monday, March 28, 2022.. I'm Jackson Bird today. The Scottish Dolphin who lives among and seems to talk with porpoises. Plus how a Wikipedia hoax became official branding for Pringles. And sheep are pivoting to solar. Here's some cool stuff for your ride home. |
| 1:00.4 | A dolphin that locals have named Kylie has been a regular fixture in Scotland's Firth of Clyde |
| 1:06.9 | for the past 14 years. She was dubbed Kylie several years ago when she used to hang around a |
| 1:12.6 | lock called the Kiles of Butte, spending most of her time with a buoy at the mouth of the lock. |
| 1:18.1 | These days, she's ditched the buoy for the companionship of porpoises, thousands of harbor porpoises |
| 1:24.9 | that call the Firth of Clyde their home. But Kylie is the only dolphin |
| 1:30.1 | among them. And after so many years spent living among porpoises, scientists say that she's adapted |
| 1:36.6 | their means of communication. It's an interesting case study of cross-species communication, |
| 1:42.3 | a phenomenon we're still only really beginning to scratch the surface of. |
| 1:46.3 | So dolphins and porpoises, along with whales, belong to the same infraordor of marine mammals called cetaceans, |
| 1:53.1 | who evolved from land-dwelling mammals before returning to water over millions of years. |
| 1:58.5 | While dolphins have a whole suite of sounds they use to communicate, |
| 2:02.1 | including clicks, whistles, and pulse calls, Harbor porpoises mostly use high-pitched clicks. |
| 2:09.0 | Researchers used a hydrophone to record audio of Kylie and the Harbor Porpoises for two years, |
| 2:14.0 | and then analyzed the recordings to try to pick out who was saying what, quoting National |
| 2:19.2 | Geographic. While dolphins whistle almost constantly, porpoises never do. Instead, they communicate |
| 2:25.9 | exclusively with what are called narrow band high frequency, or NBHF clicks, with 8 to 15 amplitude |
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