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Dolphins display memory better than elephants

This Oct. 3, 2012, photo provided by the Brookfield Zoo, shows the dolphin Allie at the zoo in Brookfield, Ill. Dolphins can swim circles around them elephants when it comes to long term memory. Scientists in a new study repeatedly found dolphins can remember the distinctive whistle _ which acts as a name to the marine mammal _ of another dolphin they haven’t seen in two decades. Bailey the dolphin hadn’t seen another dolphin named Allie since the two juveniles lived together at the Dolphin Connection in the Florida Keys. Allie landed up in a Chicago area zoo, while Bailey got moved to Bermuda. Yet 20.5 years later, Bailey recognized and reacted to Allie’s distinctive signal when University of Chicago researcher Jason Bruck played it on a speaker. (AP Photo/Brookfield Zoo, Jim Schultz)

This Oct. 3, 2012, photo provided by the Brookfield Zoo, shows the dolphin Allie at the zoo in Brookfield, Ill. Dolphins can swim circles around them elephants when it comes to long term memory. Scientists in a new study repeatedly found dolphins can remember the distinctive whistle _ which acts as a name to the marine mammal _ of another dolphin they haven’t seen in two decades. Bailey the dolphin hadn’t seen another dolphin named Allie since the two juveniles lived together at the Dolphin Connection in the Florida Keys. Allie landed up in a Chicago area zoo, while Bailey got moved to Bermuda. Yet 20.5 years later, Bailey recognized and reacted to Allie’s distinctive signal when University of Chicago researcher Jason Bruck played it on a speaker. (AP Photo/Brookfield Zoo, Jim Schultz)

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Forget elephants. Dolphins can swim circles around them when it comes to long-term memory.

Scientists in a new study repeatedly found that dolphins can remember the distinctive whistle — which acts as a name to the marine mammal — of another dolphin they haven’t seen in two decades.

Bailey the dolphin hadn’t seen another dolphin named Allie since the two juveniles lived together at the Dolphin Connection in the Florida Keys. Allie ended up in a Chicago area zoo, while Bailey got moved to Bermuda. Yet 20 1/2 years later, Bailey recognized and reacted to Allie’s distinctive signal when University of Chicago researcher Jason Bruck played it on a speaker.

Other dolphins had similar steel-trap memories. And it’s not just for relatives. It’s non-kin too.

“It’s mind-blowing; I know I can’t do it,” Bruck says. “Dolphins in fact have the longest social memory in all of the animal kingdom because their signature whistle doesn’t change.”

Studies have shown that monkeys can remember things for about four years and anecdotes have elephants remembering for about 10, Bruck says in a paper published Wednesday by Proceedings of the Royal Society B. But remembering just a sound — no visuals were included — boggles even human minds, he says.

For Bruck, 33, it’s as if a long-lost classmate from middle school called him up and Bruck would be able to figure out who it was just from the voice.

Faces, yes, yearbook pictures, definitely, but voices that change with time, no way, Bruck says.

“We’re not as acoustically as adept as dolphins,” Bruck says. It helps that dolphins have massive parts of the brain that are geared toward sound.

Bruck thinks dolphins have the incredible memory because it could help them when they approach new dolphins on a potential group hunt. And even more likely it probably allows dolphins to avoid others that had mistreated them in the past or dominated them, he says.

Male dolphins had a slightly better memory than females and that’s likely a case of worrying about dominance. Some males would hear Lucky or Hastings, dominant males, that they hadn’t heard in years and they’d react by going into an aggressive S-posture or screaming their own signatures, Bruck says.

Outside dolphin researchers praised the work, saying the next effort is to see whether somehow the dolphins visualize their old buddies when they hear the whistle. Bruck says he is working on that.

“The study raises some very interesting questions and hints at the wider importance of long-term social memory in nonhuman mammals and suggests there are strong parallels between dolphin and human social recognition,” said dolphin researcher Stephanie King at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.

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