Dolphins Communicate with ‘Fountains of Pee’

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• bizarroland@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Me too, but I don’t get an article written about me

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• vonxylofon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That gives the phrase “piss off” a whole new meaning.

  —courtesy of my wife

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• cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Wtf is that picture? Is that real, Orange dolphins?

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  • Statick@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s gotta be AI. The whole dolphin looks… off. That site must be satire.

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    • saltinejesus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s a river dolphin. The water is probably dark with tannins.

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_dolphin

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• treadful@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I had no idea dolphins and even fish could smell.

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  • huf@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    smell is the first sense, pretty much. single-celled organisms already have it.

    of course, in some ways, it’s not as easy as for example vision. you need 3 different kinds of photoreceptors to see pretty much all that there is to see, but you need god knows how many chemical receptors in your nose (or all over your cell wall in the case of bacteria or the like) to sense all the interesting stuff floating around.

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  • 5too@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?

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  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They smell like the toys in my mother’s nightstand.

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• rmuk@feddit.uk ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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  • iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Bruh… RTFA. It’s seriously, like 3 minutes, and that’s if you read the entire thing.

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  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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

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• BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It’s a cetacean micturation week, huh?

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• barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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• ebolapie@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do the dolphins aim the pee fountain into the whale urine funnel?

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• Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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• Utter_Karate@hexbear.net ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Humans do too all the time because not everyone can hear spoken language.

  EDIT: After doing some reading I have now learned about sign language and how I owe the local deaf community a huge apology.

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