A study has found that dolphins are unable to communicate as effectively when exposed to human-generated noises, forcing them to change their sounds much like people do when shouting. An international ...

Delta, right after pushing the task button. (Current Biology/Sorensen et al.) (CN) — Noise pollution and cetacean responses have been curious to researchers for years. But, as humans brought louder ...

Have you ever struggled to be heard over the sound of street construction? That makes you not all too different from dolphins, heartbreaking new research suggests. Published recently in the journal ...

MARATHON, Fla. — Through the muddied haze of an artificial lagoon, bottlenose dolphins Delta and Reese knew what to do. Two buttons situated on opposite edges of the lagoon would, if hit in tandem, ...

Dolphins are social, intelligent animals who rely on whistles and echolocation to hunt and reproduce. This means that noise generated from human activity such as drilling and shipping has the ...

Researchers found that dolphins confronted with noise increase the volume and duration of their calls to one another but struggle to cooperate. By Carolyn Wilke Mammals in the ocean swim through a ...

Wild dolphins use sea sponges as tools to hunt safely, revealing how animal culture survives despite hidden sensory costs.

Perth's two dolphin groups in the Swan-Canning Rivers and further south in Cockburn Sound have been studied for more than a ...