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Faces You Hear? Dolphin 'Signature Whistles' Might Be What Facial Expressions Are To Us
Bottlenose dolphins live in complex societies where each animal has a small number of closely connected individuals and a larger number of looser associates (not dissimilar to our own social networks).
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Solitary Dolphin in Baltic Sea Talks to Himself, Researchers Think it's a Sign of Loneliness
A bottlenose dolphin, known as Delle, has been observed in the Baltic Sea making thousands of vocalisations. The solitary dolphin’s sounds, including whistles and clicks, suggest it may be lonely and trying to communicate. Despite being in an area outside the usual range for these dolphins, no other dolphins were nearby. Researchers are exploring...
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Lonely Dolphin Found Talking To Himself, Scientists Propose Two Theories
Scientists usually don't record the sounds made by solitary dolphins as they are perceived as outcasts but here they took the gamble.
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Like Humans, These Animals Give Each Other Names
Naming others is considered a marker of highly advanced cognition in social animals, previously observed only in humans, bottlenose dolphins and African elephants. Marmoset monkeys have now joined this exclusive club, according to a new study.
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Rare Dolphin With 'Thumbs' Spotted In Greek Gulf, Researchers Surprised
Scientists said the unusual flipper does not look like illness at all but the expression of some rare and irregular genes.
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Signs Of Alzheimer's Disease Found In Oceanic Dolphins
Researchers have uncovered Alzheimer's disease indicators in the brains of three different species of dolphin that were found dead and stranded on land.
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Elusive Beaked Whales Spotted Close To Beach In Netherlands, Experts Worried: Report
A number of strange and rarely seen beaked whales, predominantly found in deeper seas, have been spotted near to the shore in the Netherlands, all in quick succession.
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Teeth, Ear Bones Found In Swiss Alps, Experts Say Belong To Prehistoric Dolphins
Researchers in Switzerland have found two previously unknown species of Dolphin in the mountain range of the Alps within its borders.
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Discarded Fishing Nets Threaten Ganga Wildlife: Study
Plastic pollution from discarded fishing gear in the Ganges River poses a threat to wildlife such as the critically endangered three-striped roofed turtle and the endangered Ganges river dolphin, according to an international team, including researchers from the Wildlife Institute of India.
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From Porpoise Detectors to 'Hawkeyes', How Technology Empowers Ecology
A scientist shares his insight into how technology empowers research, and discusses the tools of the trade that are used to study Gangetic river dolphins.
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Drop Everything And Look At This Dog Meeting His Best Friend, A Dolphin
Gunner the dog and Delta the dolphin have created a huge splash on social media with their adorable friendship.
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IIT Project Helps Increase Dolphin Population In Odisha's Chilika Lake
A research project by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has helped Odisha's Chilika lake, Asia's largest brackish water body, in tripling the population of the Irrawaddy dolphins.
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IIT Madras Researchers’ Intervention Triples Irrawaddy Dolphin Population In Chilika Lake
IIT Madras Researchers' project at the famous Chilika Lake in Odisha, has resulted in a seven-fold increase of fish catch benefitting over 200,000 fishermen living in 132 villages.
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Researches Claim New Way of Hacking into Virtual Assistants Using Ultrasonic Waves
Virtual voice assistants are susceptible to hacking like most online tools. Researchers at United States' Michigan State University's College of Engineering have now further proven the fact, by discovering a new way of hacking into a person's personal device by engaging virtual assistants like Apple's Siri and the Google Assistant through ultrasoni...
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Goats Are "Attentive", Prefer Happy People, Says This Research
Goats get a lot of love on the Internet. They get less in the pages of animal cognition journals. The darlings of such research tend to be primates, whales, dolphins, dogs and horses. Goats, on the other hand, "are not considered to be the smartest cookies," said Christian Nawroth, an agricultural scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal ...
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Faces You Hear? Dolphin 'Signature Whistles' Might Be What Facial Expressions Are To Us
Bottlenose dolphins live in complex societies where each animal has a small number of closely connected individuals and a larger number of looser associates (not dissimilar to our own social networks).
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Solitary Dolphin in Baltic Sea Talks to Himself, Researchers Think it's a Sign of Loneliness
A bottlenose dolphin, known as Delle, has been observed in the Baltic Sea making thousands of vocalisations. The solitary dolphin’s sounds, including whistles and clicks, suggest it may be lonely and trying to communicate. Despite being in an area outside the usual range for these dolphins, no other dolphins were nearby. Researchers are exploring...
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Lonely Dolphin Found Talking To Himself, Scientists Propose Two Theories
Scientists usually don't record the sounds made by solitary dolphins as they are perceived as outcasts but here they took the gamble.
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Like Humans, These Animals Give Each Other Names
Naming others is considered a marker of highly advanced cognition in social animals, previously observed only in humans, bottlenose dolphins and African elephants. Marmoset monkeys have now joined this exclusive club, according to a new study.
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Rare Dolphin With 'Thumbs' Spotted In Greek Gulf, Researchers Surprised
Scientists said the unusual flipper does not look like illness at all but the expression of some rare and irregular genes.
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Signs Of Alzheimer's Disease Found In Oceanic Dolphins
Researchers have uncovered Alzheimer's disease indicators in the brains of three different species of dolphin that were found dead and stranded on land.
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Elusive Beaked Whales Spotted Close To Beach In Netherlands, Experts Worried: Report
A number of strange and rarely seen beaked whales, predominantly found in deeper seas, have been spotted near to the shore in the Netherlands, all in quick succession.
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Teeth, Ear Bones Found In Swiss Alps, Experts Say Belong To Prehistoric Dolphins
Researchers in Switzerland have found two previously unknown species of Dolphin in the mountain range of the Alps within its borders.
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Discarded Fishing Nets Threaten Ganga Wildlife: Study
Plastic pollution from discarded fishing gear in the Ganges River poses a threat to wildlife such as the critically endangered three-striped roofed turtle and the endangered Ganges river dolphin, according to an international team, including researchers from the Wildlife Institute of India.
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From Porpoise Detectors to 'Hawkeyes', How Technology Empowers Ecology
A scientist shares his insight into how technology empowers research, and discusses the tools of the trade that are used to study Gangetic river dolphins.
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Drop Everything And Look At This Dog Meeting His Best Friend, A Dolphin
Gunner the dog and Delta the dolphin have created a huge splash on social media with their adorable friendship.
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IIT Project Helps Increase Dolphin Population In Odisha's Chilika Lake
A research project by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras has helped Odisha's Chilika lake, Asia's largest brackish water body, in tripling the population of the Irrawaddy dolphins.
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IIT Madras Researchers’ Intervention Triples Irrawaddy Dolphin Population In Chilika Lake
IIT Madras Researchers' project at the famous Chilika Lake in Odisha, has resulted in a seven-fold increase of fish catch benefitting over 200,000 fishermen living in 132 villages.
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Researches Claim New Way of Hacking into Virtual Assistants Using Ultrasonic Waves
Virtual voice assistants are susceptible to hacking like most online tools. Researchers at United States' Michigan State University's College of Engineering have now further proven the fact, by discovering a new way of hacking into a person's personal device by engaging virtual assistants like Apple's Siri and the Google Assistant through ultrasoni...
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Goats Are "Attentive", Prefer Happy People, Says This Research
Goats get a lot of love on the Internet. They get less in the pages of animal cognition journals. The darlings of such research tend to be primates, whales, dolphins, dogs and horses. Goats, on the other hand, "are not considered to be the smartest cookies," said Christian Nawroth, an agricultural scientist at the Leibniz Institute for Farm Animal ...
