Sponges as Dolphin Tools
PLoS has an interesting research article on some Australian dolphins that use conical sponges to disturb the seafloor in an effort to locate prey.
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Cryptozoology, BioForteana, and Remarkable Species
PLoS has an interesting research article on some Australian dolphins that use conical sponges to disturb the seafloor in an effort to locate prey.
Labels: behavior, dolphins, marine mammals
A new paper presents evidence for a new species of cetacean, the Southern Australian bottlenose dolphin. (News source.) Species has not yet been described.
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A group of the recently described snubfin dolphin was filmed off Australia's northwest coast. (News source.)
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After a census of river dolphins in the Orinoco and Amazon River basins, the Bolivian river dolphin has been officially recognized as a separate endemic species (Inia boliviensis). "The Bolivian species is smaller and a lighter grey in colour than the other species and has more teeth. It lives only in the Bolivian Amazon and is isolated from the other Amazon River dolphins, separated by a series of 18 rapids between Bolivia and Brazil." (News source.)
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Vacationers thought the dolphins were fishing for salmon, until they realized a small porpoise was being deliberately targeted and rammed. (News source.)
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A Chinese man videotaped a large white animal that was swimming in the Yangtze river, central Ainhu province.
A freshwater lake with no real access to the ocean shouldn't have dolphins in it, but someone claims to have seen them in Florida's Lake Seminole. From the St. Petersburg Times:
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