Featured Image Credit: Patrick Hardwood A decade and a half ago, the worst concentrations of man-made carcinogens were found in the blubber of Charleston harbor dolphins. As a result, scientists pulled and tested some of the cetaceans to monitor the situation. One of the dolphins tested was called “Number 864” in the federal dolphin health…
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Watch This Girl Use A Comb To Interact With Dolphins At SeaWorld
Have you ever seen a dolphin at an aquarium and just wanted to chat with it? Well, one little girl was able to call a dolphin over to play with her using a simple comb. Last month, Ellie Meszaros was enjoying a visit to SeaWorld Orlando with her dad. As they headed for the dolphin…
Read MoreMarch Is Dolphin Awareness Month And We’re Celebrating All Things Dolphin!
Featured Image Credit: Unsplash The month of March is when we celebrate and raise awareness of dolphins, extremely intelligent creatures with bubbly personalities. They are mammals, and are closely related to, but are not themselves, whales or porpoises. Here’s an interesting fact: The name dolphin originates from the Greek word δελφίς (delphís), which is interpreted to mean “a…
Read MoreBeluga Whale That Lives With Dolphins Has Traded Her Calls For Theirs
Featured Image Credit: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/ Over the past 4 years, a four-year-old captive beluga whale has adapted to living and communicating with dolphins. She had been living in a facility with other belugas until she was moved to a new pool shared with only dolphins in the Koktebel dolphinarium in Crimea. The beluga adapted to her…
Read MoreDolphins: Playful, Adorable, And Pretty Dang Intelligent
Featured Image Credit: www.dolphins.com.au By: Nazifa Islam If you were to go out to a populated street and ask a number of people who the smartest water animal was, chances are 8/10 would say a dolphin. We generally think of dolphins as those cute friendly creatures who will lean in for a kiss when you…
Read More“Hello, it’s me.” – How Dolphins “See” with Echolocation
Unlike humans, dolphins will never know the pain of trying to find a light switch in the dark. They’ve got something that we don’t have – echolocation.
Read MoreWhy Dolphins Are the Most Intelligent Ocean Creature
Why do so many people think of them as intelligent and when asked why can’t they give us definite reasons? What makes a dolphin so smart?
Read MoreRescued Rough-Tooth Dolphin Finds a Forever Home
Check out the incredible story of Stan, a deaf dolphin that is getting a second chance at life thanks to SeaWorld’s rescue team.
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