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Dolphins Address One Another By Name
Their names, however, are whistle patterns. New Scientist reports: Stephanie King of the University of St Andrews, UK, and colleagues monitored 179 pairs of wild bottlenose dolphins off the Florida...
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Chimp ‘Secret Handshakes’ May Be Cultural
Isn’t culture supposed to be what separates us from the animals? Now what does humanity have that sets us apart, just toilets and puns? Live Science writes: These chimp handshakes, which are seen only...
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Crows Are Capable Of Human-Style Reasoning
Today, this news, tomorrow, a bird parliament. Crows living in a controlled environment have shown that they possess a sophisticated form of reasoning believed to be a hallmark of humanity alone, Wired...
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Researchers Discover The Four Personality Types Of Elephants
Animals have distinct personality types, the Telegraph reveals In a new study of African elephants, researchers have identified four distinct characters that are prevalent with a herd – the leaders,...
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Wild Dolphins Give Treasured Gifts To Humans
A peace offering from our aquatic brethren? Discovery reports: On 23 occasions over the past several years, wild dolphins were observed giving gifts to humans at the Tangalooma Island Resort in...
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Accepting Alternate Forms Of Intelligence In The Animal Kingdom
Our inability to perceive animal intelligence revealed the limits of our own. Via the Wall Street Journal, Frans de Waal writes: Who is smarter: a person or an ape? Well, it depends on the task....
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India To Recognize Dolphins As “Non-Human Persons”
Are we moving beyond the human/animal binary? Via Environment News Service: India’s Ministry of Environment and Forests has decided to forbid the keeping of captive dolphins for public entertainment...
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Chimps Easily Beat Humans In Complex Numeric Memory Tests
Via the Guardian, powerful mental abilities we ironically have lost through evolution: In a landmark test of short-term memory conducted in public in 2007, the young chimp Ayumu demonstrated...
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Do Dolphins And Humans Share A Special Bond?
Are the dolphins trying to tell us something, if we would only listen? Via Aeon Magazine, Justin Gregg ponders: The science makes one fact undeniably clear: wild dolphins of some species are noted for...
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Dolphin Translator Relays First Word
Can we handle what dolphins have to tell us? CNET News reports: Scientists at the Wild Dolphin Project (WDP) who have been developing a dolphin translator may have succeeded in getting their software...
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