'The past decade has seen an explosion of new research into some of the most fascinating sounds in the sea: the vocalisations of #whales and #dolphins.'
Rough conditions today out at sea, but there were some lovely #dolphins around including this youngster alongside mum and a friend 🐬🐬🐬Inner Moray Firth, Scotland
pacific white sided dolpins at the extreme range of my lens, +- 200m away from Juniper Point. I only spotted them because the light reflected on their backs. #nature#seascape#dolphins#wildlife#britishcolumbia
Since it's still pouring rain... 🙄 Although you still have to be reasonably careful with the pro camera gear, doing my job in wet conditions is still possible and I actually love it, as you see the dolphins in neutral, flat light with no glare on the wet skin - here's a young dolphin playing "Frisbee" with a jellyfish in the rain. #Dolphins#nature#Scotland#wildlifephotography.
Keeping #dolphins, #orcas and other cetaceans in #captivity is cruel. Depriving them of the vast open spaces and social bonds that they would normally have in the wild, and confining them to small, concrete #tanks to perform tricks for dead fish is highly unethical for these complex marine mammals. No matter how sophisticated the enclosure, no man made facility can ever hope to replicate the wild world of dolphins and whales.
A surprise fossil found in the Amazon rainforest connects to both ancient saltwater dolphins and contemporary freshwater kin. The largest river dolphin fossil has been found — thousands of miles from its nearest living relative, reports an international group of paleontologists in Science Advances....
For #meermittwoch#seawednesday A Bottlenose dolphin surfacing in a bronze coloured sea at sunset, a pattern of dark lines, tiny waves, visible in the photo as well as the dark silhouette of the dolphins dorsal fin and body as it surfaces to breathe. Inner Moray Firth, Scotland. #dolphins#Scotland#Sunset
A pair of Bottlenose dolphins in a glassy sea, with a parked oil rig in the background. Inner Moray Firth, Scotland. #DolphinsOfMastodon#dolphins#Scotland
Nouvel épisode des Phin’Talks de la Phin’Equipe qui recevait Patrick Cobbs : “Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard” #NFL#Miami#Dolphins#MiamiDolphins#FinsUp
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Captive #dolphins and #whales are transported across the world to #aquariums and #MarineParks. These animals are ripped away from their families and all they know, forced to live in barren concrete #tanks. Transportation is a stressful process for these animals. The journey itself poses significant risks. Stress-induced illnesses and health problems are an issue and in the worst cases it can lead to death. When transported,
The South Taranaki Bight is home to blue #whales, Māui and Hector’s #dolphins, kororā (little #penguins), and key fishing grounds. You may already know that it is under threat once again by the possibility of #SeabedMining. Trans Tasman Resources ( #TTR ) is seeking consent to #mine the seabed of the South Taranaki Bight - to dig up to 50 million tonnes of ironsands a year for over 30 years, dumping 45 million tonnes back onto the seafloor.
Yeah, don't worry about trying to get pics and vids of yourself during training, @CodySimpson -- it's less about doing it for the cameras or for the glamour of it. As long as you can record some stories or talk about them after this extreme phase of your life has concluded, that will be more than enough. We do appreciate the glimpses you have shown us as they let us know you're doing everything to push as hard as you can. #AustralianOlympicTrials#Swimming#Dolphins
12 people who attended the #Chiefs - #Dolphins playoff game in January had to undergo amputations (mostly fingers and toes).
The mercury plummeted to minus 3 with a wind chill of minus 25 at halftime at the Arrowhead Stadium.
Since the 1980s, the combined populations of river dolphin species have plummeted by 73%.
With the Global Declaration for River Dolphins, 14 countries (six of them in Latin America) are expected to join forces to protect the six surviving species of this aquatic mammal that inhabit the world’s rivers and are under some category of threat. So far, 11 of the governments involved have signed the declaration.
The Suprise Discovery Of The World's Largest Prehistoric Dolphin Reveals Unlikely Link (www.discovermagazine.com)
A surprise fossil found in the Amazon rainforest connects to both ancient saltwater dolphins and contemporary freshwater kin. The largest river dolphin fossil has been found — thousands of miles from its nearest living relative, reports an international group of paleontologists in Science Advances....