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

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.

WASHINGTON -- Some dolphins in Australia have a special technique to flush fish from the seafloor. They hunt with a sponge on ...

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.

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

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

DolphinGemma, based on Google's Gemma AI models, has been trained on WDP's vast dataset of dolphin sounds and the accompanying notes. It's not just Google's AI that's being used by the project.

"DID A DOLPHIN JUST TRY TO SPEAK TO ME?" 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 ...

Researchers are using large language models to decode the communication patterns of animals. Google DeepMind is building DolphinGemma, which studies dolphin sounds to understand them. The Earth ...

Over time, DolphinGemma will try to organize the dolphin sounds into categories — almost like words, sentences, or expressions in human language. "By identifying recurring sound patterns, ...

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 ...