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Animals did not respond to whistles that were not their own signature. This study provides compelling evidence that a dolphin’s learned identity signal is used as a label
Read moreType D orcas have blunt heads, small white eye spots, and narrow, curved dorsal fins.
Read moreThe ability of two bottlenosed dolphins Tursiops truncatus to understand imperative sentences expressed in artificial languages was studied.
Read moreIt has been a widespread belief that marine mammals do not struggle, as human divers do, with decompression sickness - "the bends" - when ascending from great depths.
Read moreMy biggest surprise was to see how fast these beautiful animals actually swim underwater. One of these young dolphins tried to teach me her kind of swimming, but quickly gave up on such a clumsy student.
Read moreExperts believe the population of the J, K and L pods that frequent the San Juan Islands and Puget Sound probably originally numbered between 100 and 200.
Read more“The findings add fuel to an already fierce debate in the research community on how the echolocation sound is produced”, says Josefin Starkhammar.
,The beam projections have different frequencies and can be sent in different directions. The advantage is probably that the dolphin can locate the object more precisely.
—Josefin Starkhammar
Read moreUntil the 1990s, only two kinds of orcas were seen in the inshore waters of British Columbia, says John Ford, a zoologist at the University of British Columbia and a research scientist at the Pacific Biological Station run by Fisheries and Oceans
Read moreInterspecies was started in 1978, to grant artists the same access to wilderness and wild animals that is usually reserved for field biologists. Their goal and belief is that science is not the only approach to understanding nature.
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