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Is there anything the iPad can’t do? An application called Speak Dolphin is now being used by Dolphin Discovery’s swim team in Puerto Adveturas, Mexico, on Merlin, a two-year-old bottle-nosed dolphin in hopes the communication gap will be bridged between man and scarily intelligent porpoise. The app uses symbol recognition techniques in order to teach the dolphin how to express itself. Merlin uses his rostrum (elongated beak) to press the symbols on the iPad’s touch surface in attempt to turn us humans into ‘Dolphin Whisperers’.

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