MONKEY Mia has a cute new addition to its beach.

Piccolo - one of the favoured dolphins of the popular tourist spot - has given birth to a calf.

This is the first baby dolphin of the season to come in and say hi to the beach visiting group.

Last year, researchers claimed the playful family of dolphins at Monkey Mia are the smartest animals ever studied on the planet.

Camera Icon Colo - one of the favoured dolphins of popular tourist spot Monkey Mia - has given birth to a calf. Credit: PerthNow, Twitter/@WAParksWildlife

The group of scientists, led by US researcher Professor Richard Connor, said the dolphins there are the most “socially complex” animals known to man.

“No other animal ever studied has relationships that are more complex, and dolphins studied elsewhere around the world don’t have relationships as complex as the dolphins at Monkey Mia,” Dr Connor, one of the leading researchers in the Shark Bay Dolphin Project, said.

Bottlenose dolphins have the biggest brains outside of humans based on body size, and they’re already considered among the smartest animals because they have a complex “language” of clicks and whistles, can recognise themselves in mirrors and can learn to understand sign language.