• barsoap@lemm.ee
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    5 days ago

    What are the chances they figured out we’re trying to decode their speech and they’re trolling us?

    • 5too@lemmy.world
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      7 days ago

      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?

  • rmuk@feddit.uk
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    7 days ago

    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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      5 days ago

      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

  • Mothra@mander.xyz
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    6 days ago

    Is it just three paragraphs or am I missing something here? It feels like it ends abruptly especially for a SA article