Dolphin News
A recent study in West Australia found 41 female bottlenose dolphins using sponges to protect their noses when they explored the sea for prey. Female bottlenose dolphins teach their daughters to break off sea sponges and wear them on their snouts to probe the ocean floor for food.
It provides the first evidence of cultural learning [...]
Very soon the world will have another place where to swim with dolphins. Delphinus from Grupo Via Delphi, one of the most important dolphinarium chains in Mexico will expand its sustainable Dolphin Swim business in Cancun to southeast Asia in Singapore where they were selected to design, build and operate the new theme park dolphinarium in [...]
Many studies worldwide have tried to prove that swimming with dolphins will help cure depression. A university in UK carried out a study to determine if swimming with dolphins helps alleviate different types of depression. The activity took place in Honduras, where15 people suffering of depression participated in regular swimming sessions with dolphins.
They found [...]
A group of dolphins were sighted in the north shore of Long Island, NY which seems to be the same ones that appeared just a week ago.
The group of about 150 to 200 dolphins first spotted Wednesday in Cold Spring Harbor, Huntington and Northport is believed to have split into two groups. One group [...]
Dolphin assisted therapy is believed to making miracles in children with special needs in Willemstad Curacao. When a 350-pound dolphin named Matteo touched a toddler with his snout, a sparking a burst of smiles and joy where observed.
Kuhnert, a single mom from Florida has worked for the past 15 years raising funds for dolphin assisted [...]
Dolphin therapy has become quite popular in places like Dubai. Swimming with dolphins as therapy has been recommended to families that have children with special needs, which is imparted in special care centers where they can interact and play with dolphins during a long period of time, to improve the social and communication behavior of [...]
It has been reported that pollution in the Mekong River, one of the world´s longest rivers has pushed the local population of Irrawaddy dolphins to the brink of extinction.
Researchers have found toxic levels of pesticides such as DDT and environmental contaminants such as PCBs during the analysis of the dead dolphin calves.
“These pollutants are widely [...]
The commercial fishing industry in New Zealand is asking that laws should not to be changed in order to protect Hector’s dolphins. Supporters of the rules, which came into play last October, say without them our dolphins will go from endangered to extinct.
Fewer than eight thousand Hector’s dolphins remain and its cousin the Maui dolphin [...]
When dolphins in Florida receive visits from baby sharks in the warm tropical lagoons, they tend to play volleyball with them if they are not rescued on time by researchers.
The activity triggers a scramble for staff to rescue the sharks at the Dolphin Research Center in Grassy Key, 58 miles north of Key West, Media [...]
A larger number of whales, dolphins and porpoises than expected could be at risk from the effects of climate change according to a study carried out by a scientist from the University of Aberdeen in Scotland, UK. He has found that climate change is likely to affect where 88% of the world’s whale, dolphin and [...]
