Bottlenose dolphins, like all other dolphin species, play an important role in keeping their environment in balance. They eat fish, squid, cuttlefish and crustaceans, and are themselves a source of ...

Interspecies adoptions are rare, but it’s not the first time this population of dolphins in French Polynesia has attempted it. Jef Akst was managing editor of The Scientist, where she started as an ...

The calf will mark the first bottlenose dolphin birth at the zoo ... even if you don't feel like it — how many do you show? Why fish and oranges are considered lucky for Lunar New Year Hidden ...

The park released a full list of close encounter experiences offered in 2025 which includes the newest "Shark Snorkel" and ...

Bigeye trevallies (Caranx sexfasciatus) prey on schools of small fish using a very different approach than do bottlenose dolphins. These trevallies have evolved to cooperate with each other ...

Bottlenose dolphins were observed targeting the smaller kahawai while false killer whales showed a clear preference for the larger kingfish. Regardless of the fish species encountered, both whales ...

Cetaceans—marine mammals that include dolphins, porpoises, and whales—are crucial to coastal ecology. Their presence fosters ...

Certain species of dolphins, such as bottlenose dolphins, have been observed handling pufferfish with surprising care, likely to induce the release of small amounts of the fish’s toxins ...

This summer the Brookfield Zoo’s bottlenose dolphin habitat will reverberate with the chatty whistles and playful leaps of a new calf — the first expected to be born there in over a decade.

These two bottlenose dolphins off the Florida Keys quickly learned that the only way to pull the cap off a PVC pipe filled with fish was to cooperate. What looks like busywork is in fact a test of ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Signature whistles of bottlenose dolphins offer a reliable method for estimating their abundance, comparable to photo-ID techniques. Analysis of acoustic data ...