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Watch: Dramatic Video Shows Killer Whales Chasing Lone Penguin In Ocean
A viral video shows adult orcas hunting a lone penguin as passengers watch the dramatic exchange from a ship.
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Scientists Baffled As Killer Whales And Dolphins Work Together To Hunt Prey
Scientists observed orcas and white-sided dolphins collaboratively hunting salmon off British Columbia, marking a rare example of interspecies cooperation among marine predators.
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These Dolphins In Australia Use Sponges to Hunt. Here's How and Why
Some dolphins in Australia have a special technique to flush fish from the seafloor. They hunt with a sponge on their beak, like a clown nose.
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Faroe Islands Resumes Controversial Dolphin Hunt
Every summer, images of the bloody hunt make headlines around the world and spark outrage among animal rights defenders who consider the practice barbaric.
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Play Date Between Bolivian River Dolphins and Anaconda Leaves Trail of Questions
Bolivian river dolphins' behaviour has raised several theories. While some believe adult males could have been teaching hunting techniques to the young ones, others think the juveniles could've been present at the spot out of curiosity. Another theory indicates this amusing behaviour of dolphins to be sexual in nature.
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Outcry As 1,400 Dolphins Slaughtered In A Day In Faroe Islands Of Denmark
The government of the Faroe Islands, an autonomous Danish territory, faced an outcry on Tuesday over the culling of more than 1,400 white-sided dolphins in a day in what was said to be the single biggest hunt in the northern archipelago.
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On Video, Hundreds Of Dolphins On Hunt Cut Through California Waters
Dolphins have refined their precision killing over millions of years of evolution, roaming oceans in pods to funnel fish into their jaws.
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Chinese Man Slings Dying Dolphin Over His Shoulder In Bizarre Video
Police in China are hunting for an unidentified man who was filmed walking along a beach with a small dolphin slung over his shoulder. According to several media reports, the dolphin was stranded on a beach in southern China. The reports quote eyewitnesses as saying that the man simply picked up the dolphin and walked away with it. A short clip tha...
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Half of Live Dolphins Caught in Japan Exported Despite Hunt Outcry, Says Report
About half of live dolphins caught in the Japanese coastal town of Taiji were exported to China and other countries despite global criticism of the hunting technique used, a news report has said.
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Japan Zoos, Under Pressure, Give Up Buying Dolphins From Grisly Hunt
Japan's association of zoos and aquariums said on Wednesday it will stop buying dolphins taken in a controversial hunt made famous in an Oscar-winning documentary, possibly raising pressure to halt the annual event Japan says is a tradition.
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Japan dolphin hunt goes on after slaughter: campaigners
Japanese fishermen were out at sea attempting to trap more dolphins on Wednesday, campaigners said, after the bloody slaughter of dozens of the animals the previous day was hidden from view behind screens.
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Watch: Dramatic Video Shows Killer Whales Chasing Lone Penguin In Ocean
A viral video shows adult orcas hunting a lone penguin as passengers watch the dramatic exchange from a ship.
-
Scientists Baffled As Killer Whales And Dolphins Work Together To Hunt Prey
Scientists observed orcas and white-sided dolphins collaboratively hunting salmon off British Columbia, marking a rare example of interspecies cooperation among marine predators.
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These Dolphins In Australia Use Sponges to Hunt. Here's How and Why
Some dolphins in Australia have a special technique to flush fish from the seafloor. They hunt with a sponge on their beak, like a clown nose.
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Faroe Islands Resumes Controversial Dolphin Hunt
Every summer, images of the bloody hunt make headlines around the world and spark outrage among animal rights defenders who consider the practice barbaric.
-
Play Date Between Bolivian River Dolphins and Anaconda Leaves Trail of Questions
Bolivian river dolphins' behaviour has raised several theories. While some believe adult males could have been teaching hunting techniques to the young ones, others think the juveniles could've been present at the spot out of curiosity. Another theory indicates this amusing behaviour of dolphins to be sexual in nature.
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Outcry As 1,400 Dolphins Slaughtered In A Day In Faroe Islands Of Denmark
The government of the Faroe Islands, an autonomous Danish territory, faced an outcry on Tuesday over the culling of more than 1,400 white-sided dolphins in a day in what was said to be the single biggest hunt in the northern archipelago.
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On Video, Hundreds Of Dolphins On Hunt Cut Through California Waters
Dolphins have refined their precision killing over millions of years of evolution, roaming oceans in pods to funnel fish into their jaws.
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Chinese Man Slings Dying Dolphin Over His Shoulder In Bizarre Video
Police in China are hunting for an unidentified man who was filmed walking along a beach with a small dolphin slung over his shoulder. According to several media reports, the dolphin was stranded on a beach in southern China. The reports quote eyewitnesses as saying that the man simply picked up the dolphin and walked away with it. A short clip tha...
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Half of Live Dolphins Caught in Japan Exported Despite Hunt Outcry, Says Report
About half of live dolphins caught in the Japanese coastal town of Taiji were exported to China and other countries despite global criticism of the hunting technique used, a news report has said.
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Japan Zoos, Under Pressure, Give Up Buying Dolphins From Grisly Hunt
Japan's association of zoos and aquariums said on Wednesday it will stop buying dolphins taken in a controversial hunt made famous in an Oscar-winning documentary, possibly raising pressure to halt the annual event Japan says is a tradition.
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Japan dolphin hunt goes on after slaughter: campaigners
Japanese fishermen were out at sea attempting to trap more dolphins on Wednesday, campaigners said, after the bloody slaughter of dozens of the animals the previous day was hidden from view behind screens.
