Dolphins are one of the most social mammals. They are highly intelligent as well, utilizing their communication skills to both cooperatively hunt and learn what is socially acceptable within a pod.

According to a study, this technique is quite challenging because hunting while carrying a sponge on the face interferes with ...

The findings highlight the complexity of dolphin behavior and appear in the journal Royal Society Open Science.

Researchers are using large language models to decode the communication patterns of animals.

AI is a continual topic in the news lately, for a multitude of reasons. One newsworthy use of AI involves interpreting animal ...

When examining the bottlenose dolphin, the most studied of all dolphins, the species is capable of producing 40 distinct sounds. This has been noted in their whistles and clicks, primarily.

The delicate art of sponge hunting is unique to a small amount of dolphins and passed down generations, but takes many years ...

We typically imagine echolocation as “seeing” with sound—experiencing auditory signals as a world of images like the ones our ...

DUNNELLON, Fla., April 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "A,E,O,U"–these are the vowels the dolphin, Zeus, made that grabbed the attention of lead researcher Jack Kassewitz and led to this groundbreaking ...

New research reveals that dolphins can mimic human vowel sounds, indicating their potential for interspecies communication The study highlights a dolphin named Zeus and the marine mammal's intentional ...

How Dolphins Hear Sounds. Dolphins do not have external ears, but they have small openings on the sides of their heads that allow them to hear above the water.