In The News: Dolphins have names

Scientists call them "signature whistles." Just as they call the incredibly ordered and organizationally structured cetacean language, "a complex and sophisticated communication system," because, well, you wouldn't want to correctly identify a non-human intelligence and look like a fool to your colleagues, right? Plus, you couldn't justify keeping them as slaves and slaughtering their brethren if you recognized them as equals, could you?

http://www.care2.com/causes/dolphins-have-their-own-names-for-each-other.html