By Laela Sayigh, PhD, WHOI, Vincent Janik, PhD, SMRU, St. Andrews, UK and Peter Tyack, PhD, WHOI This year we had an exciting new development in our dolphin communication studies, by successfully testing the attachment for a newly developed digital acoustic tag, the DTAG version 3. The DTAG v.3 is a powerful, non-invasive tool for [...]

To date, DNA panels for 238 dolphins of the Sarasota Bay community indicate that 51 calves were sired by a male in the community; 20 calves (28%) were not.

This research will reveal the range of variability in developmental trajectories of bottlenose dolphins and provide missing data on how juvenile dolphin behavior patterns vary by sex, age, season, and time since weaning.

The results from our experiments in Sarasota Bay show that copying a signature whistle provides an effective way of addressing dolphins.