If you ask anyone what a dolphin eats, you’ll probably get the same answer: fish! After all, fish are abundant in all the different waters where dolphins live. However, dolphins are opportunistic ...

Perth's dolphins are opportunistic with food. Dr. Chabanne said their preferences changed with the seasons: In summer they tended to eat more benthic detritivore fish, such as mullet, while in winter ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this photo provided by the Shark Bay Dolphin Research Project, a bottlenose dolphin wearing a marine sponge on its nose to ...

Kelly the dolphin gamed her own reward system, then taught the trick to her calf — echoing real tool-use traditions found in ...

Conservationists say their findings suggest there isn't enough prey for the dolphins to hunt elsewhere. The post Dolphins becoming increasingly reliant on fishing trawlers for food appeared first on ...

WASHINGTON — Some dolphins in Australia have a special technique to flush fish from the seafloor. They hunt with a sponge on their beak, like a clown nose. Using the sponge to protect from sharp rocks ...