Nine northern resident killer whales off Vancouver Island were filmed and acoustically tagged during a summer field season, and the recordings revealed something researchers had not formally ...
Discover how Bubbles, a wild dolphin in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, has been observed chasing fish until they vomit, then eating their regurgitation—a fascinating instance of kleptoparasitism.
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers discovered that Northern resident killer whales hunt by going silent and eavesdropping on dolphin echolocation to ...
Dolphins produce a range of vocalizations used for echolocation and communication. These vocalizations vary with social context, environmental conditions, external stimuli, and communication, ...
Dolphins have honed the remarkable ability of echolocation, emitting high-frequency clicks and interpreting the echoes that bounce back to guide their navigation. This sophisticated biological sonar ...
Scientists recorded 11 instances of Bubbles successfully snacking this way. They mark some of the first detailed observations ...
A project born in response to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill has produced a new method that lets scientists sort through and classify millions of dolphin sounds more rapidly than ever before.
Thought to be some of the smartest animals on Earth, bottlenose dolphins send messages to one another in many different ways. They squeak, squawk and use body language—leaping as high as 20 feet in ...