There’s no question in anyone’s mind that dolphins and other cetaceans are intelligent. They rank among the smartest of all the non-human animals. They have a language, even if we have so far been unable to parse it, and they build complex social structures. They’ve even been observed teaching one […]
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Dolphins keep their skin healthy with coral body scrubs
In the waters of the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, bottlenose dolphins have a highly unusual relationship with their reef habitat. Divers frequently witness the marine mammals rubbing their faces and bodies against certain corals and sponges, even waiting in orderly lines to approach the invertebrates. “You get […]