Laela Sayigh received her Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MIT/WHOI) Joint Program, and her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Her research focuses on social behavior and communication of cetaceans (whales and dolphins). She has been involved with a long-term study of bottlenose dolphins in waters near Sarasota, Florida, for many years, where her work has focused on individually distinctive signature whistles and other aspects of dolphin communication.
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When a dolphin whistles, what does it mean?
Recordings from a decades-long research project in Florida are helping scientists decode the complexity of dolphin whistles.