Dolphins Communicate with ‘Fountains of Pee’
Dolphins Communicate with ‘Fountains of Pee’
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Dolphins Communicate with ‘Fountains of Pee’
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That gives the phrase "piss off" a whole new meaning.
—courtesy of my wife
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I had no idea dolphins and even fish could smell.
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Sharks are supposed to be able to smell blood from a mile or more away - that's why throwing chum in the water is a good way to draw them in.
I hadn't thought about dolphins smelling though - I wonder if it's closer to tasting, maybe?
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They smell like the toys in my mother's nightstand.
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Do the dolphins aim the pee fountain into the whale urine funnel?
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I can't be bothered reading the article but could someone clarify for me: is the fountain of pee the means or the recipient of the communication?
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Bruh... RTFA. It's seriously, like 3 minutes, and that's if you read the entire thing.
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Uhhhh
"Recently researchers documented Amazon River dolphins (Inia geoffrensis) performing a curious behavior: aerial urination. A male turns on its back at the water’s surface and ejects a stream of pee into the air—and almost 70 percent of the time, the team reported in Behavioural Processes, a nearby male “receiver” approaches this spontaneous fountain."
Oh gawd I am dying over here lol
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What are the chances they figured out we're trying to decode their speech and they're trolling us?
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Is it just three paragraphs or am I missing something here? It feels like it ends abruptly especially for a SA article
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Me too, but I don't get an article written about me