"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."
15 Comments
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 1y
Me too, but I don't get an article written about me
vonxylofon@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 1y
That gives the phrase "piss off" a whole new meaning.
—courtesy of my wife
cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de · 7 pts · 1y
Wtf is that picture? Is that real, Orange dolphins?
Statick@programming.dev · 1 pts · 1y
It's gotta be AI. The whole dolphin looks... off.
That site must be satire.Maybe not satire but wtf that image is odd.
saltinejesus@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 19 pts · 1y
It's a river dolphin. The water is probably dark with tannins.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_dolphin
Statick@programming.dev · 5 pts · 1y
I had no idea. Thank you!
treadful@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 1y
I had no idea dolphins and even fish could smell.
5too@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1y
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?
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
They smell like the toys in my mother's nightstand.
ebolapie@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1y
Do the dolphins aim the pee fountain into the whale urine funnel?
rmuk@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 1y
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?
iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
Bruh... RTFA. It's seriously, like 3 minutes, and that's if you read the entire thing.
Doomsider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1y
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
barsoap@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 1y
What are the chances they figured out we're trying to decode their speech and they're trolling us?
rmuk@feddit.uk · 1 pts · 1y
Mothra@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 1y
Is it just three paragraphs or am I missing something here? It feels like it ends abruptly especially for a SA article