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(Jan. 20)\u003cbr/\u003eTRACK: Dolphins can do a lot of things ... including, as it turns out, copying each other's behavior ... all while blindfolded.**\u003cbr/\u003eNAT of trainers asking dolphin to imitate \u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: Dr. Kelly Jaakkola (YA'-koe-la), Director of Research at Dolphin Research Center. \" That whole monkey see, monkey do thing is a complete myth. Monkey's don't imitate, but dolphins do. Dolphins are one of the rare few animals that can imitate.\"\u003cbr/\u003eNAT of dolphins\u003cbr/\u003eTRACK: Tanner, a young male Bottlenose dolphin, is shown a pair of soft eyecups that will be used to blindfold him. His trainer, using a hand chopping signal, asks Tanner to imitate the other dolphin.\u003cbr/\u003eTRACK: Within seconds, both dolphins are splashing water and showing off for the small crowd that has gathered.\u003cbr/\u003eTRACK: So how exactly does it work? Tanner uses sound in one of two ways.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: Dr. Jaakkola\u003cbr/\u003e\"Dolphins have this ability to echolocate by sonar, very similar to bats. And so one possibility is he is echo-locating on that and he is (quote fingers) seeing the behavior with sound. However there is another possibility as well. Maybe he's recognizing the characteristic sound of the behavior like if I asked you to close your eyes and I clap my hands, you would still be able to imitate that by recognizing the characteristic sound. He could be using either one.\"\u003cbr/\u003eTRACK: RESEARCHERS wanted to focus on whether dolphins can imitate while blindfolded ... SO all the behaviors used in the study were already known to the dolphins. But can dolphins imitate each other naturally? That has yet to be tested.**\u003cbr/\u003eNAT of trainer joking how second dolphin didn't do what was asked\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: Dr. Jaakkola\u003cbr/\u003e\"You do occasionally get the demonstrator dolphin will do a different behavior than what was asked for. That's actually OK, because Tanner's job is to imitate whatever it is that that dolphin does.\"\u003cbr/\u003eTRACK: One goal of the research is conservation.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: Dr. Jaakkola\u003cbr/\u003e\"Now that sounds a little bit weird, but it's human nature to care more about animals we perceive as intelligent. So the more we can showcase that intelligence we give people a way to connect, to care and therefore conserve.\"\u003cbr/\u003e**TRACK: Teaching dolphins new tricks ... while they teach humans, too.**\u003cbr/\u003eTRACK: Suzette Laboy, The Associated Press, Grassy Key Florida.\u003cbr/\u003eHere is the script for the Dolphin study story. The print story likely won't run until late Monday or early Tuesday. I am also interviewing a researcher by phone who was not involved with this study later today, if you want I can add a sentence of whatever they say.\u003cbr/\u003eGRASSY KEY, Fla. _ Turns out the whole 'monkey see, monkey do' thing is a myth. A study done at the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys says although imitation is rare in the animal kingdom, dolphins can imitate one another while blindfolded by using sound. \u003cbr/\u003e1. NAT of trainers asking dolphin to imitate \u003cbr/\u003e2. SOUNDBITE: Dr. Kelly Jaakkola (YA'-koe-la), Director of Research at Dolphin Research Center. \" That whole monkey see, monkey do thing is a complete myth. Monkey's don't imitate, but dolphins do. Dolphins are one of the rare few animals that can imitate.\"\u003cbr/\u003e3. TRACK: Dr. Kelly Jaakkola (YA'-koe-la) helped conduct a study at the Dolphin Research Center in the Florida Keys that says dolphins can imitate another dolphin's behavior while blindfolded.\u003cbr/\u003e4. NAT of dolphins\u003cbr/\u003e5. TRACK: Tanner, a young male Bottlenose dolphin, is shown a pair of soft eyecups that will be used to blindfold him. His trainer, using a hand chopping signal, asks Tanner to imitate the other dolphin.\u003cbr/\u003e6. NAT of trainer asking Tanner to imitate\u003cbr/\u003e7. TRACK: Within seconds, both dolphins are splashing water and showing off for the small crowd that has gathered.\u003cbr/\u003e8. TRACK: So how exactly does it work? Tanner uses sound in one of two ways.\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: Dr. Jaakkola\u003cbr/\u003e\"Dolphins have this ability to echolocate by sonar, very similar to bats. And so one possibility is he is echo-locating on that and he is (quote fingers) seeing the behavior with sound. However there is another possibility as well. Maybe he's recognizing the characteristic sound of the behavior like if I asked you to close your eyes and I clap my hands, you would still be able to imitate that by recognizing the characteristic sound. He could be using either one.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. TRACK: Since researchers wanted to focus on whether dolphins can imitate while blindfolded, all the behaviors used in the study were already known to the dolphins. But can dolphins imitate each other naturally to learn something new? Researchers have yet to test whether dolphins can imitate a novel behavior, but say it isn't out of the question for the near future.\u003cbr/\u003e11. NAT of trainer joking how second dolphin didn't do what was asked\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: Dr. Jaakkola\u003cbr/\u003e\"You do occasionally get the demonstrator dolphin will do a different behavior than what was asked for. That's actually OK, because Tanner's job is to imitate whatever it is that that dolphin does.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. TRACK: One goal of the research is conservation.\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: Dr. Jaakkola\u003cbr/\u003e\"Now that sounds a little bit weird, but it's human nature to care more about animals we perceive as intelligent. So the more we can showcase that intelligence we give people a way to connect, to care and therefore conserve.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. 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