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462 results for: Dolphins
- Animals
Dolphin without a name
While splitting the dolphin family tree, researchers found a new species.
- Health & Medicine
Body & Brain
The brain sleeps in shifts, plus thinking better with folate, how brains feel the beat and more in this week's news.
- Life
Dolphin may sense the body electric
Organs on the species' snout help it detect faint fields, like those generated by prey.
- Space
The Drake Equation Turns 50: An interview with Frank Drake
The astronomer shares his name with the equation that quantifies the number of detectable civilizations in the Milky Way.
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- Life
Help, elephants need somebody
In pull-together tests, pachyderms are on par with chimps in understanding the basics of cooperation.
- Life
Mosquito fish count comrades to stay alive
New experiments indicate that mosquito fish can count small numbers of companions swimming in different groups, an ability that apparently evolved to assist these fish in avoiding predators.
- Ecosystems
Churning the numbers
Some of the ocean’s small swimmers may be having a big impact on ocean mixing.
- Animals
Tool use to crow about
A pair of new studies indicates that crows can employ tools in advanced ways, including using stones to displace water in a container and manipulating three sticks in sequence to reach food.
- Animals
SOS: Call the ants
Emergency ant workers bite at snares, dig and tug to free trapped sisters
- Health & Medicine
Pigs use mirrors
After some time to play around with a mirror, pigs figure out what to do when they glimpse a reflection of food.
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Dolphins may seek selves in mirror images
Dolphins apparently recognize their own reflections.
