Active sensors are incorporated into a number of technologies, such as meteorology devices and self-driving cars, and use the echo from sound, radio or light waves to locate objects. But despite nearly a century of development, ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 8, 2018
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Noise levels in the world's oceans are on the rise, but little is known about its impact on marine mammals like dolphins that rely on sound for communication. Researchers from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 24, 2018
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Dolphins, whales and other cetaceans are susceptible to many of the same health hazards as humans including mercury, brevotoxin (e.g. Red Tide), and lobomycosis. They also serve as important sentinel species to highlight ...
Evolution
Oct 10, 2018
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Across their range in South America, the iconic pink river dolphin faces an increasingly uncertain future. Water pollution, dam construction, poaching and bycatch pose serious threats to these amazing creatures, which play ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 25, 2018
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Cooperation can be found across the animal kingdom, in behaviours such as group hunting, raising of young, and driving away predators.
Plants & Animals
Sep 19, 2018
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Airborne marine biologists were amazed by the sheer abundance and diversity of large marine wildlife in their recent aerial survey of the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument, the only marine national ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 14, 2018
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Bottlenose dolphins are being exposed to chemical compounds added to many common cleaning products, cosmetics, personal care products and plastics, according to a new study in GeoHealth, a journal of the American Geophysical ...
Plants & Animals
Sep 5, 2018
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A dolphin which has lived alone in the Firth of Clyde for at least 17 years appears to have found company in local harbour porpoises.
Plants & Animals
Aug 30, 2018
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Dolphins learn tricks from each other in the wild, new research shows.
Plants & Animals
Aug 29, 2018
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For the first time, researchers have explored the physiological adaptations that enable different populations of the same species of dolphin to vary in diving ability by almost 1000m. The research, published in two complementary ...
Plants & Animals
Jul 17, 2018
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