Male Amazon river dolphins pee into the air, confusing scientists
Over four years, a team from Canada’s CetAsia Research Group traveled to the Amazon river, where they then closely watched ...
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Scientists 'shocked' as 'never-before-seen' footage of dolphins communicating with their ...
Araújo-Wang told New Scientist: “On the first occasion, we saw a male flip his belly up out of the water, expose his penis ...
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'Lonely' dolphin caught speaking to himself by scientists. Here's how
Scientists have recorded a "lonely" dolphin speaking to himself in the Baltic Sea. Dolphins are known to be social animals and they have been seen "smiling" when they are playing with one another ...
Let us spray: River dolphins launch pee streams into air
Specifically, the male dolphins rolled over onto their backs, displayed their male members, and launched a stream of urine as high as 3 feet into the air. This usually occurred when other males were ...
The Scientist6 年
How One Wild Dolphin’s Trick Became a Fad
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Karen Pryor, Guru of Positive Reinforcement, Is Dead at 92
She was so successful at training dolphins that she began applying the same techniques to other creatures, including dogs — ...
来自MSN1 个月
Scientists record 'lonely' bottlenose dolphin talking to himself in the ocean
But a solitary bottlenose dolphin, known by the name Delle, has been observed near the Svendborgsund channel in Demark and scientists think he could be lonely. Because the channel is not commonly ...
The Scientist5 年
Bottlenose Dolphin Adopts Whale Calf of Another Species
Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an intern in 2009 after receiving a master ... a nongovernmental organization dedicated to whale and dolphin conservation, were out ...
Dolphins use a 'fat taste' system to get their mother's milk, study reveals
Scientists have discovered that juvenile bottlenose dolphins have specialized receptors for detecting the fatty acids in ...
EurekAlert!13 天
Dolphins use a 'fat taste' system to get their mother’s milk
Juvenile dolphins were found to have specialized receptors for fatty acids on their tongues, offering new insights into their ...
Panda1 年
First regional freshwater dolphin survey underway in South America
The census is also part of a training programme for South American scientists in estimating numbers of threatened species. "Supporting this census is important for WWF since the conservation of the ...
Panda10 个月
First regional freshwater dolphin survey underway in South America
The census is also part of a training programme for South American scientists in estimating numbers of threatened species. "Supporting this census is important for WWF since the conservation of the ...