Scientists collected dolphin urine, dumped those samples into other dolphin enclosures, and then recorded how long they spent investigating the pee. Yes, really. It’s part of a study to understand how ...

Bottlenose dolphins’ signature whistles just passed an important test in animal psychology. A new study by my colleagues and me have shown that these animals may use their whistles as name-like ...

Know the group urine. Dolphins don't have a sense of smell, but they can follow friends by their flavor. Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family live 100% energy and ...

Dolphins get to know their friends by tasting their pee, a new study finds. By sampling sips of each other's urine, dolphins demonstrated a type of social recognition that begins with an exchange of ...

Think about people you know, and how you could tell they were around even if you couldn't see them: perhaps their voice, or a favored perfume. For bottlenose dolphins, it's the taste of urine and ...

(CN) — Like humans, bottlenose dolphins know who their friends are, using identifying characteristics by using taste and sound. The similarities to humans end there, though, since dolphins use the ...

Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in zoology from the University of Reading and a master’s in wildlife documentary production from the University of Salford. Eleanor has an undergraduate degree in ...

Researchers say they have made a startling discovery in the Amazon River. But their evidence wasn’t collected from the water—it could be seen from shore. After around 219 hours of observations, they ...

I'm always looking for new and fascinating studies of nonhuman animal (animal) behavior, and just learned about two very interesting research projects. The first is a study of bottlenose dolphins by ...

A dolphin was captured on camera urinating into the air as another dolphin swims nearby in a rare occurrence that has left researchers and viewers bewildered. The newly resurfaced footage, originally ...