Dolphins have long captured our imaginations with their playful behavior, acrobatic leaps, and eerie, high-pitched chatter. But behind their oceanic charm lies something even more fascinating: ...

But Billie was wild. “Tail walking in wild dolphins is indeed rare,” says Janet Mann, a biologist at Georgetown University who studies dolphin behavior. “I have seen it only once in ... Ashley started ...

With those two gestures, she has instructed the dolphins to show her a behavior she hasn’t seen during this session and to do it in unison. Spinner dolphins return from foraging to a bay off ...

While dolphins enjoy play, as noted by the researchers, they don’t always rely on toys to accomplish this. Sometimes, they’d blow intricate rings, a behavior that astonished researchers when ...

During this training, the locations were randomized and the person holding the ball differed each time, so that those details were irrelevant to learning the fetching behavior. Then, for the trials, ...

Dolphins are fascinating marine creatures known for their intelligence, social behaviour, and unique hunting techniques. These aquatic mammals belong to the cetacean family and share ...

The dolphin’s behavior changed immediately, and it repeatedly dashed itself against him. Experts say the most severe type of ramming is a rush, which can prove fatal. The British Broadcasting Corp.

You can’t mistake an adult Atlantic spotted dolphin for anything else—the spots are a dead giveaway. This gregarious cetacean isn’t born with those beauty marks, however. Calves start out ...