The trick was first observed among Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) during surveys conducted between 2007 and 2018 by Sonja Wild, then at the University of Leeds, UK, and her ...

In a recent paper, a team of chemists and biologists scrutinized the Red Sea’s Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus) population and their propensity for this rubbing behavior.

The wild tale began when Billie, an Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus), was rescued in January 1988, after becoming trapped in a polluted harbor in southern Australia.

On her deep-sea dives, wildlife biologist Angela Ziltener of the University of Zurich often noticed Indo-Pacific bottlenosed dolphins doing something intriguing. The dolphins (Tursiops aduncus ...

Stephens et al/Death by octopus (Macroctopus maorum): Laryngeal luxation and asphyxiation in an Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops aduncus)/Marine Mammal Science/Wiley.

A group of Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) lined up and took turns rubbing their bodies against corals or sea sponges along the seafloor.

Like humans, dolphins sometimes suffer from irritated skin. But instead of lathering on soothing lotion, Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in the northern Red Sea head for the ...

Previous research had shown that the DNA found in the dolphins differed from that of the known bottlenose species Tursiops truncatus and Tursiops aduncus. But in order to define a new species ...

A year-round population of about 60 Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) is known to live off the coast of the busy port city of Bunbury.