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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

We can't get past the pee part, so we had to ask about someone who actually knows what's going on. Cue Dr. Jason Bruck, an assistant professor at Stephen F. Austin State University who led the gross ...

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 ...

According to Amazonian folklore, the area's male river dolphins are shapeshifters (encantade), transforming at night into handsome young men who seduce and impregnate human women. The legend's origins ...

Scientists are perplexed by a strange new behaviour shown by the Amazon river dolphin of flipping belly-up to urinate with another male “actively” seeking the stream with its snout. The quirky dolphin ...