Scientists have discovered that juvenile bottlenose dolphins have specialized receptors for detecting the fatty acids in their mother's milk. These findings, published in the journal Marine Mammal ...

Bottlenose dolphins live in a wide variety of marine habitats, including harbours, bays, and estuaries, as well as nearshore coastal waters, and even far offshore in the open ocean. They are one of ...

Dolphins have specialized receptors to detect fatty acids in mother's milk, aiding in assessing nutritional value of food.

Eyewitnesses and experts said the dolphin attacks, mostly involving people being bitten, were likely the work of a male Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin estimated to be around 6 years old.

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"We looked at the tongue of a young Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin and confirmed special structures that may help it detect fat," says the study’s first author Hinako Katsushima of the Graduate ...

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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.

long-snouted spinner dolphin, Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Cuvier’s beaked whale, and the least known of all marine mammals, the Indo-Pacific beaked whale (Indopacetus pacificus). With support ...

Three of these species—Bryde's whales (Balaenoptera edeni), Australian humpback dolphins (Sousa sahulensis) and Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus)—are known to maintain a regular ...