Tag: Dolphins
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The Week in Animal News: Pigeons Poop Soap, Giant Pandas Won't Have Sex and More
A crazy project wants to alter pigeons' diets to make them poop soap and clean our cities. A study on panda's sex habits shows why reproductive success is so elusive and more.
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The Week in Animal News: Chimps Teach Bike Safety, Fat Dogs Get a Stairlift and More
A 1952 film teaches bike safety with a wayward chimp, the growing ranks of obese pets get a free ride up the stairs and more.
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New Finding Offers Hope for Critically Endangered Dolphin
A pair of Hector's dolphins have joined the waning population of Maui's dolphins in New Zealand, offering hope for an increase in genetic diversity and the return of sustainable breeding.
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Like Taiji's Cove, Daytona Breaks My Heart—Again
How a failure at Daytona helped raise awareness about a tragedy in Japan.
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Brazilian Beachgoers Rescue a Pod of Wayward Dolphins (Video)
There are numerous stories of dolphins that have come to the aid of distressed humans in kindly acts of interspecies courtesy out at sea -- but now, following a startling incident in Brazil, at least one pod of dolphins has a similar tale to share.
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Mass Dolphin Strandings Continue, So Do Incredible Rescue Efforts (Video)
Dolphins get a hand from humans in Cape Cod. Footage from rescuers with the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
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The Week in Animal News: Panda Eats Meat, Dolphins and Whales Play, and More
A panda in China threw everyone for a loop when it was photographed eating a goat-antelope. We also have a dolphin-whale playdate, ways to save seabirds and more.
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Ocean Activists Make Waves for Conservation in Colorado
“Even if you never touch the ocean, the ocean touches you with every breath you take.” - Sylvia Earle
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The Week in Animals News: Mass Animal Escape, Sweaters for Penguins, and More (Slideshow)
Residents of Muskingum County in Ohio got quite a shock this week after dozens of exotic animals broke free from an area wildlife farm and took to the streets and highways.
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The Week in Animal News: Long Lost Cat Comes Home, Animals Bathing, and More (Slideshow)
A Colorado family that had long ago given up on finding their cat got some incredible news this week, when Willow was found in New York City -- five years later and 1,800 miles from home.
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New Species of Dolphin Discovered in Australia
Researchers in Australia say they've made a remarkable discovery, identifying for one of the first times in over a hundred years a brand new species of dolphin. And, in addition to being the latest of its kind to be uncovered,
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Amazon Fishermen See Dolphins as Rivals & Kill Them for Bait
It's a horrible example of killing two birds with one stone: in Igarapé do Costa, a fishing town in the Brazilian Amazon, local fishermen, tired of seeing their catches decimated by feeding pink
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Dolphins Save Doberman From Drowning in Florida Canal
Last week concerned dolphins successfully saved the life of a struggling Doberman Pinscher by alerting a vacationing couple that the poor pooch was stuck on the sandbar. The dolphins were enjoying a swim through the Florida canal on
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Dead Baby Dolphin Death Toll Rises to 60 Along Gulf Coast
Updating the story from three days ago on dead baby dolphins washing up at 10 times the normal rate on Gulf Coast beaches: And then there were 60. Initial reports said that 17 dead baby dolphins had been discovered
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Dead Baby Dolphins Washing Up Along Gulf Coast at 10 Times Normal Rates
Not too much in way of detail on this yet, but scientists from the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies are reporting that dead baby dolphins are washing up along the Gulf Coast of Mississippi and Alabama
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The Week in Animal News: Goat Kills Hiker, Squirrel Vandalism and More (Slideshow)
Bright eyed and bushy tailed this squirrel may be, but in the community of North Swindon, England, a band of squirrels have been gnawing on car brake cables instead of acorns.
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What Can Squid Hear? And Why Does It Matter?
Ears are amazing. They help you keep balance, turn a newborn's face towards its mother's voice, and alert us to escape danger. Increasingly, these wondrous organs are the target of new frontiers in environmental protection. Human
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Leilani Munter's Shocking Footage From the Taiji Dolphin Slaughter
I am currently in the little town with the really big secret: Taiji, Japan, made famous by the Academy Award winning documentary The Cove .
