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NEWS ABOUT: dolphins

dolphins stories: 10 news summaries

(Newser) - The Japanese town that triggered a furor after a documentary highlighted its dolphin slaughter is granting a reprieve to 100 of the animals, reports AP. Some 50 dolphins will be sold to aquariums, and the remainder of the 100 trapped for yesterday's first hunt of the season will be released... More »

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Japan • dolphin • Ric O'Barry • dolphins • Flipper • Taiji • The Cove

movie review

 Dolphin Doc 
 The Cove 
 a Real Thrill 

Critics wowed by 'horrifying' film

Jul 31, 09 12:37 PM CDT
(Newser) - Critics are raving about The Cove, a documentary about a Japanese town whose economy rests on capturing and killing dolphins for the worldwide market:
  • It’s “an exceptionally well-made documentary that unfolds like a spy thriller, complete with bugged hotel rooms, clandestine derring-do and mysterious men in gray
... More »

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film • Japan • documentary • dolphins

(Newser) - Whales and dolphins have highly evolved social structures and may deserve a “personhood” status similar to that being considered for members of the great ape family, Wired reports. The emotional and social areas of the cetacean brain are “enormously complex,” notes one researcher, “and in many... More »

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marine animal • dolphins • whales • cetaceans • social behavior

 Aussies Can't Save 
 87 Stranded Whales 

But rescuers are ultimately able to save only four

Mar 25, 09 11:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Rescue crews saved four long-finned pilot whales after a mass stranding in Western Australia’s Hamelin Bay, but scores of others died, the West Australian reports. Eighty-seven whales and dolphins beached Monday, prompting more than 250 volunteers and 100 conservation workers to spend a near-freezing night on the beach nursing... More »

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Australia • rescue • dolphin • animal rescue groups • stranded • dolphins • whales

 Dolphins: Chefs of the Sea 


Jan 31, 09 11:56 AM CST
(Newser) - A bottlenose dolphin that researchers have been tracking since 2003 follows a complex regimen when preparing a meal of cuttlefish, National Geographic reports. The female dolphin, caught on tape off the coast of Australia, first kills the squid-like creature, shakes it to remove indigestible ink, and then scrapes its... More »

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Australia • scientific study • dolphins • marine mammals • learned behavior • cuttlefish • feeding

OPINION

Sundance Stunner Sheds Light on Dolphin Slaughter

The Cove filmmakers aim to curb demand for mammals from aquariums, for food

Jan 22, 09 11:41 AM CST
(Newser) - Planning a trip to Sea World? You might want to go before you see The Cove—because you sure won’t want to after. The documentary, made by a National Geographic photographer and Flipper’s former trainer, takes viewers inside a secret cove in Japan, Andrew O’Hehir, from Sundance,... More »

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Japan • Sundance Film Festival • mercury • dolphins • Sea World

Dolphins' Hunting Tools Mostly Used by Females

Dolphin moms pass skills on to daughters; males do their own thing

Dec 26, 08 12:44 PM CST
(Newser) - Beside humans, few other animals use tools to get their everyday chores done. Even fewer of them are marine mammals, so researchers in Australia were surprised to catch bottlenose dolphins employing conical sponges to dig in the seafloor. Mostly female dolphins use the snout-protectors, and only if their mothers showed... More »

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Australia • nature vs. nurture • dolphins • marine mammals • marine biology • tools

 Noisy Humans 'Drowning Out' 
 Marine Mammals 

Report urges humans to turn down industrial volume in world's oceans

Sep 15, 08 12:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Whales and dolphins are seriously suffering from the noise that human industry and militaries release into the ocean, an animal-welfare group warns—and we need to turn the volume down before we do irreversible damage. Sonar is implicated for mass stranding and deaths of whales and dolphins, the BBC reports,... More »

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ocean • noise • dolphins • marine mammals • sonar • whales

Appeals Court Nixes Sonar Exemption Claim by Navy

But court sets aside protections for marine life for another 30 days

Mar 2, 08 5:25 AM CST
(Newser) - The US Navy is not exempt from laws that ban whale-harming sonar, a federal appeals court has ruled. The Bush administration had contested an earlier ruling, arguing that halting sonar use when whales are nearby poses "significant restrictions on our ability to train realistically." Whales and dolphins have... More »

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whale • Southern California • US Appeals court • US Navy • marine life • dolphins • sonar • submarine training

Dolphin Dies Near Sonar Site

It washes up as Navy is challenging restrictions on tests

Feb 22, 08 9:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Researchers are trying to determine what killed a female dolphin that washed up on an island off the coast of San Diego—an area where the Navy conducted controversial sonar tests, the Los Angeles Times reports. The dolphin washed up as the Navy challenges court-imposed restrictions on the use of... More »

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whale • US Navy • National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration • dolphins • marine mammals • sonar • San Nicolas Island • mass strandings • Marine Mammal Health and Stranding Response Program • Alamo Pintado Equine Medical Center • National Marine Fisheries Service • bends

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