By: Kevin Lee

As we all know, parents love their babies, so they use baby talk to communicate with them, but surprisingly, we aren’t the only ones who use baby talk to speak with babies. In fact, dolphins use baby talk too.

According to the Los Angeles Times, “‘They use these whistles to keep track of each other. They’re periodically saying, ‘I’m here, I’m here’,’ said study co-author Laela Sayigh.”

When recording 19 mother dolphins communicating with their kids, they all whistled at a higher pitch than usual, which seems a lot like baby talk.

As said in a Los Angeles Times article, “‘That was true for every one of the moms in the study, all 19 of them,’ said biologist Peter Tyack , a study co-author from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland.”

With this evidence, it is now confirmed that mother dolphins do baby talk with their baby dolphins. However, as easy as it might sound, it actually took about 3 decades or 30 years to gain this data, according to Los Angeles Times.

“This study is the result of so much research effort,” said Mauricio Cantor, a marine biologist from Oregon State University.

Scientists and researchers aren’t 100 percent sure, but zebra finches may sing to their chicks as if they also use baby talk, and who knows, maybe other creatures can baby talk with their babies.