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Sometimes a snoutful of snot can be just what the doctor ordered, at least if you're a dolphin,

because a new study shows that a little bit of mucus helps these marine mammals generate the rapid fire stream of clicks they emit and use for echo location.

First off, let's just get this out of the way. Dolphins do not actually sound like this. That's a made-for-TV

giggle that some say is actually the doctored call of a bird, the Australian cuckabura. Real dolphins,

like these bottle noses, sound more like this.

They use their clicks, chirps, and whistles to navigate, communicate, and to catch their

next meal. The high-frequency clicks, in particular, help Flipper and his kind locate and

track fish dinners.

Dolphins make these sounds by forcing air through a nasal passage just beneath the blowhole.

In this nasal region, our lip-like flaps of tissue called dorsal bursay that vibrate and collide

to produce dolphin talk. Now, a team of researchers has created a simplified model that can reproduce this characteristic dolphin chatter,

and they found that the secret ingredient is snot.

While looking through the literature,

oceanographer Aaron Thode stumbled across a model that represented vocal cords as masses connected by springs, which store and release energy,

and dampers which dissipate that energy.

This model successfully replicated the essential characteristics of the system,

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