Social media loves to villainize dolphins. Here's why it's wrong. Social media loves to villainize dolphins. Here's why it's wrong. Dolphin moms use 'baby talk' with their calves Dolphin moms use ...

By protecting marine dolphins like these we’re helping keep our seas healthy – which is good for all the other wildlife, and billions of people, who rely on the sea for their survival. Common ...

More information: Matt Sharpe et al, A comparison of photo‐ID and signature whistle based capture‐recapture abundance estimates of common bottlenose dolphin, Marine Mammal Science (2024).

Since 2022, students and faculty members at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi have tested blubber from 89 common bottlenose dolphins, detecting fentanyl and other drugs in 30 of them.

Behavioural tests in captive common bottlenose dolphins showed that a juvenile can recognize the presence of milk in water.

Bottlenose dolphins are one of the more common dolphin species in the wild — the kind humans might encounter while boating — and do well with humans in settings like zoos where they become ...