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This scenario may one day become reality. And to be efficient, such robots would need to be maneuverable and stealthy, and be able to closely mimic the movements of the marine creatures.
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The Wildlife Trusts, which comprises 46 individual wildlife trusts around the country, reports record numbers of more than 800 sightings of whales, dolphins and seals in the waters of the United Kingdom in 2019.
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Whether or not you have watched (or agree with) the movies Free Willy or Blackfish, the predicament of captive cetaceans is one that can spark off a heated debate from both sides of the fence.
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“We found that they do interact socially and are making more sounds than previously thought,” said Laura May Collado, a biologist at the University of Vermont and co-author of the study, which was published in the journal PeerJ.
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Bottlenose dolphins in the Indian River Lagoon (IRL) in Florida were studied by a group of scientists of the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute (HBOI) at Florida Atlantic University.
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Indus river dolphins are one of only four river dolphin species and subspecies in the world that spend all of their lives in freshwater.
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Researchers have found chemical compounds in the urine of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) tested in Sarasota Bay, Florida.
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The effort to establish the retirement community for cetaceans started two years ago when the Whale Sanctuary Project, based in the United States, announced it was looking at sites in North America where it could set-up a large seaside enclosure.
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Inside the chests of dolphins and toothed whales, a maze of tiny, worm-like blood vessels called the “thoracic rete” has long baffled scientists.
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In animal communication research, vocal labeling refers to incidents in which an animal consistently uses a specific acoustic signal when presented with a specific object or class of objects.
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A new study by the University of Exeter has highlighted how overfishing in the Mediterranean has led to dolphins preying on the fish caught in fishing nets in northern Cyprus, due to dwindling fish numbers.
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Instead of wearing earplugs at a rock concert, imagine you could simply tune a dial inside your ears to lower the volume and protect your hearing.
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Although England’s South-West is regarded as a cetacean hotspot, little was known about the bottlenose dolphins glimpsed off the coast.
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Although the common bottlenose dolphin is not endangered, scientists have raised concerns with regards to a specific population of them inhabiting the Bocas Del Toro Archipelago in Panama.
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Plans for a proposed dolphin park to be built in Da Nang in Vietnam has been scrapped.
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Some whales feed by lunge-feeding, in which they open their mouth wide and lunge forward. The massive quantity of water—including small fish—that ends out in their mouths is then strained through a series of baleen plates.
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