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Ecology Sep 6, 2024

Taiwan volunteers fight rise in whale and dolphin strandings

Taiwanese volunteers gathered around a large inflatable whale as they learned how to help beached sea mammals—an increasingly common sight across the island.

Agriculture Sep 5, 2024

Dolphin-friendly? New research shows that vague environmental labeling is common on NZ seafood products

Many seafood products sold in New Zealand make environmental claims, but our new research shows most of them are too ambiguous and may serve as greenwashing.

Plants & Animals Sep 5, 2024

Unraveling the evolutionary secrets of how whales and dolphins adapted their backbones for aquatic life

If you've ever seen a dolphin swim, you may have wondered why they undulate their bodies up and down when swimming, instead of side to side as fishes do. Though they have a fishlike body, cetaceans (a group comprised of whales, ...

Environment Sep 4, 2024

India's new mega-dam will roil lives downstream with wild swings in water flow every day

"Hey Rupam, open the door. Take this fish," a woman yelled from outside. I was sitting in the kitchen at my friend Rupam's house in rural northeast India. It was the heart of monsoon season, and rain had been falling since ...

Plants & Animals Sep 3, 2024

Wild and human-cared spotted dolphins harbor different gastrointestinal microbiomes, researchers find

A recent study published in Water Biology and Security highlighted the significant role of food source variations in shaping the gut microbiome of spotted dolphins, even when they inhabit similar environments.

Plants & Animals Aug 29, 2024

Uncovering the secret communication of marmoset monkeys: They have names

A new study from Hebrew University reveals that marmoset monkeys use specific calls, known as "phee-calls," to name each other, a behavior previously known to exist only in humans, dolphins, and elephants. This discovery ...

Ecology Aug 28, 2024

Keeping up with the dolphins: Drones give snapshot of pod health

Using drones to successfully assess the age of critically endangered, free-ranging dolphins in Greece is the focus of new research at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB). This work, ...

Plants & Animals Aug 22, 2024

Into the blue: How baleen whales have adapted over the past 50 million years

The largest dataset of cetacean genes ever collated has helped Flinders University scientists deep dive into the blue to fathom the triumph of baleen whale evolution.

Plants & Animals Aug 5, 2024

Scores of reports of sick sea lions along California's Central Coast

Wildlife rescuers are reporting an uptick in diseased sea lions along California's Central Coast. The culprit: domoic acid, a neurotoxin produced by harmful algal blooms.

Ecology Jul 29, 2024

Dolphin cruises help Istanbul treasure its Bosphorus bottlenoses

As the first dolphin fin surfaced from the Bosphorus, a ripple of excitement went round passengers on a free boat ride to see one of Istanbul's most graceful sights.

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