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Renewed dolphin slaughter prompts new campaign

... hunts, which result in the deaths of thousands of dolphins every year, are inhumane by any ethical standard a...shermen who herd hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dolphins and small cetaceans into shallow bays by banging on partially submerged rods that create a sonic bar...

Small, smaller, smallest -- The plight of the vaquita

...ng cetacean (the order Cetacea consists of whales, dolphins and porpoises). It also has one of the smallest ranges (c. 2235 km2) and one of the smallest populations ( The vaquita is endemic to the north-western corner of the Gulf of California (north of 30º45'N and mainly west of 114º20'W), an area rich and ...

Fishy cooperation

...t the rank contests of their daughters. Bottlenose dolphins form "political" coalitions every bit as complex as those of chimpanzees. Caledonian crows not only use tools in the wild, but also modify tools in the lab, an ability once thought to define humans. And now come the fish. In an article published t...

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