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While it's already well-known that dolphins rank among the most intelligent creatures on the planet, new research is suggesting that they just might be one of the most magnanimous too.

A team of biologists recently published a study examining dozens of fascinating cases of inter-species generosity between dolphin and human, all taking place along the shore of Australia's Tangalooma Island Resort. According to their findings, wild dolphins have been observed bearing gifts, such as dead "eels, tuna, squid, an octopus" to wading humans on 23 separate occasions.

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Male dolphins not only form a series of complex alliances based on their close relatives and friends but these alliances also form a shifting mosaic of overlapping geographic ranges within in an open social network, says a new...

Recordings of five captive dolphins mimicking whale songs at night could be evidence of the animals 'rehearsing' their days in their sleep.

Dolphins do not whistle, but instead "talk" to each other using a process very similar to the way that humans communicate, according to a new study.

Here is another cool segment from this week's NPR Talk of the Nation Science Friday. I have always been fascinated by the social and intellectual skills of dolphins, and I am reasonably convinced that they are as intelligent or more so than humans.

Dolphins may learn harmful or undesirable behaviors, such as begging for food from humans, from each other, Murdoch University researchers have discovered.

Franky Zapata uses a flyboard to zoom in and out of the water and leap through the air. Report by Jeremy Barnes. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.c...

Researchers are using a unique method to interpret and manipulate the pings and echoes that bats, dolphins, and mole rats use for learning about their environments and capturing their prey.