Swimming with the dolphins has become a popular new therapy, but conservationists say it's not doing dolphins any good and psychologists say that, despite earlier reports, it doesn't do people any good, either.
The Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society is today calling for a total ban on Dolphin Assisted Therapy (DAT), stating that the...
Sometimes dolphins seem almost human and their DNA IS close to ours. That might be why the world's tallest man (who is Chinese) recently saved two of them.
CNN reports that "the long arms of the world's tallest man reached in and saved two dolphins by pulling out plastic from their stomachs." The dolphins got sick after eating plastic...
There are parrots with large and complex vocabularies, apesthat can sign, and a pod of dolphins that recently saved agroup of human swimmers from a shark attack.
Now, it seems that prairie dogs don't just yap a fewsignals, they have a complex language that evolves withtime, has dialects, and contains hundreds of words.
According...
We've learned that dolphin DNA is closer to humans than cows, horses or pigs, despite the fact that they live in the water. Now it's been discovered that record numbers of these friendly relatives, along with sea lions, are being killed by a deadly toxin from sea algae that grows in the waters along California's southern coast.
The...
And they aren't even human! - A beach resort in the U.K. has warned swimmers to stay away from Georges, a bottlenose dolphin who arrived there two months ago, after following a ship across the English Channel, because he keeps trying to lure swimmers out to sea and mate with them.
"This dolphin does get very sexually...
While there are other intelligent animals living on the earth with us, only a few can be called conscious or self-aware. If you put a mirror in a cage with a bird, he will think he has a new friend. Dogs and cats scratch at mirrors, not realizing they are really seeing themselves. Now scientists have proved that dolphins can recognize their own...