Ciao, Cetaceans!

A new species of dolphin has been discovered in my country! Well, the wet bits around it, to be exact :)

http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/09/new-species-of-dolphin-discovered-in-australia.php

Even blindfolded, a 7-year-old bottlenose dolphin named Tanner was able to mimic another dolphin's behavior, and that's proof, Florida researchers say, that dolphins are masters of imitation second only to humans. - When his sight was blocked, Tanner used other senses to figure out what the other dolphin was doing and copy it, the researchers at ( Read more... )

Someone brought their Pleo (an animatronic baby dinosaur that has remarkable interactive programming) to SeaWorld and put it in front of the dolphin tank. Apparently, humans aren't the only creatures that respond to Teh Cute. It's actually a little freaky. Check it out:

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I'm not sure what is cooler here: The birds herding fish or the whales gulping it all down.

Hungry whales steal birds' dinner

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this is cool as hell :D

I've never seen this before until I finally got to catch up on the last few episodes of Planet Earth the other day. This is a learned technique that only a few dolphins out of the group being filmed have mastered, but it still looks so ridiculously FUN.

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YES.


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Just a beautiful video of DOLPHINS HERDING FISH

Given the recent wtf posts about the Montauk Monster, and the Monster iof Troy, and interesting news I got elsewhere about Australian Snubfin Dolphins ( aka 'Snubbies' ), I offer you a tribute of data about mysterious skulls, dead stuff washed up, and dolphins - in the form of the mysterious and rarely seen Mesoplodon lanyardii or Strap-toothed ( Read more... )

New Zealand dolphin rescues beached whalesA dolphin has come to the rescue of two whales which had become stranded on a beach in New Zealand ( Read more... )