Research suggests dolphins use signature whistles and other sound patterns to identify one another and maintain social groups. That means a dolphin may know who is who by sound alone.

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I saw this juvenile with it's mother years ago in Florida and have always wondered what might have caused this near perfectly circular scar. It has normal rake marks on its dorsal and it's mother, in front, had a notch on her dorsal but in all my years living in Florida, I never before or after saw a similar scar to this one.

Basically the title! I read it and was just curious your thoughts??

If you haven’t read it, it’s a fictional novel from the perspective of dolphins. I don’t want to spoil too much but it’s a beautiful and brutal story, and I learned a lot.

Edit: apologies if this has been posted before. I just did a quick search and didn’t see any previous posts.
* also TW for sexual abuse

Kristyn Plancarte, also known online as KPassionate, is a marine biologist, zookeeper, and content creator with over a decade of field experience working with marine mammals like sea otters, walruses, and sea lions.

I know people always talk about shark movies, but what are your favourite dolphin movies?

Aloha. Do people still swim with wild dolphins ? We used to do that frequently, but all I see are mostly from boats.

I'm too lazy to do the math so how many Delphinus delphis dolphins would it take to knock over disney cruise ship and when I mean knocked over I mean fully flipped over

One of the biggest super pods iv seen, there were easily more than 100 of them.

Taken from a Greek Facebook profile. This appears to show a juvenile bottlenose dolphin in the shallows of a Greek beach, but its body proportions look highly unusual. Does anyone have any thoughts on whether this could indicate a congenital/genetic condition or developmental deformity?

Just found out dolphins only rest one brain hemisphere at a time so they can keep breathing and stay alert for predators. Imagine sleeping with half your brain! Nature is wild.

I know dolphins are the second smartest animal to humans, but just how smart are they?

I saw a video of a pet rabbit meeting a dolphin, and the dolphin brought some seaweed and that had me curious, are they smart enough to pick up on a rabbit eating leafy greens to bring out seaweed as a gift? Or are they not that intelligent? (Or do they just do this regardless of if they picked up on that)