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One of the attributes of intelligence is the ability to think and solve problems. In the early 1960s, I was told that this was unique to humans, and only we could use and make tools, only we had language and culture, but more and more research has proved that many animals are excellent at solving problems. Many use tools, and many show cultural differences. Some scientists believe that whales and dolphins are communicating with what may be a real language. – Jane Goodall	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I am thankful that the NFL's investigator found my factual allegations against Stephen Ross are true, at the same time, I am disappointed to learn that the investigator minimized Mr. Ross's offers and pressure to tank games especially when I wrote and submitted a letter at the time to Miami Dolphins executives documenting my serious concerns regarding this subject at the time which the investigator has in her possession. – Brian Flores	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Indeed who would be prosecuted or fined should over 500 be killed in the next two years ? No doubt if over 500 were killed in a year then those responsible would claim they did not realize that the pod was so big until it was driven into the shallows and the dolphins killed, this new' quota' is meaningless for dolphins in the long run and has only hastily been announced as a thinly-veiled attempt to deceive both politicians and the press in the face of continued outrage over the killing of dolphins in the Faroe Islands. – Lukas Erichsen	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I’ve loved them since I was five, my love for them started when they lost to Dallas in Super Bowl VI. I just love them. I live and die with every play, and all I want for Christmas is for Miami Dolphins to win a Super Bowl before I die. – Darius Rucker	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We were looking for the qualities of leadership, intelligence, innovation and someone who really understands what The Miami Dolphins takes for winning in the long run, first of all, he’s probably one of the brightest coaches that I’ve spoken to. When you talk to people, the first thing they ’ll say about Mike is he is innovative, he is thinking outside the box. I had coaches in his former division calling me and telling me how great he was and I said, why are you calling ? And they said, ‘ Really, to get him out of the division. ’ It says an awful lot about a person and who he is. – Stephen Ross	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Jim Harbaugh, I love Jim Harbaugh, he had the opportunity once before to come to the Miami Dolphins. But he’s at the University of Michigan as everybody really knows. That is the school that I graduated from and I’m very involved in it, and I’m not going to be the person that takes Jim Harbaugh from the University of Michigan. I hope he stays there. He is a great coach. – Stephen Ross	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
I’ve given by heart and soul to the Miami Dolphins franchise since they drafted me in 2016, and want to make it clear that I love my teammates, they are my family. But what I’ve learned is that the business side of the NFL proves organizations don’t always have player’s best interest at heart. – Pro Bowler	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
We are seeing this exponential increase of marine deaths, including dolphins, turtles. What is noticeable is the exponential increase started soon after this accident, we are seeing 30 to 40 cases reported daily. – Don Muditha Katuwawala	Found on CNN 2 years ago
I think everyone in the community is frustrated, when you see dead dolphins in the water, when you see dead manatees in the water, dead sea turtles... when you have captains who have fished in the area for decades say they have never seen anything like this, that is enough to declare a state of emergency and not just say it's another naturally occurring harmful algal bloom. – Thomas Paterek	Found on CNN 2 years ago
That's hard to test, but modern dolphins do ram tusks and kill them. – Robert Boessenecker	Found on CNN 3 years ago
There are many other unique and strange early dolphins and baleen whales from Oligocene aged rocks in Charleston, South Carolina, because the Oligocene epoch is the time when filter feeding and echolocation first evolved, and since marine mammal localities of that time are scarce worldwide, the fossils from Charleston offer the most complete window into the early evolution of these groups. – Robert Boessenecker	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Some dolphins use shells quite regularly during foraging, while others have only ever been seen with a shell once, so, while there may be other explanations, it's possible that some dolphins have mastered the skill more than others. – Sonja Wild	Found on CNN 3 years ago
This is surprising, as dolphins and other toothed whales tend to follow a' do-as-mother-does' strategy for learning foraging behavior. – Sonja Wild	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Our study shows that the foraging behavior' shelling' — where dolphins trap fish inside empty seashells — spreads through social learning among close associates. – Sonja Wild	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Our results show that dolphins are definitely capable, and in the case of shelling, also motivated to learn new foraging tactics outside the mother-calf bond, learning from others allows for a rapid spread of novel behaviors across populations, and it has been suggested that species with the capacity for learning from others in this way may be better able to survive. – Sonja Wild	Found on CNN 3 years ago
You can identify individual dolphins after a while by their scars and marks, because we see them so often, we couldnt tell which one was the mother because there was a group of three or four dolphins sheltering the calf. – Rob Hughes	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said this bottlenose dolphin was speared to death in May and washed up on shore on Upper Captiva Island in Florida. A reward has been posted for information in the case. ( NOAA) HUNDREDS OF DOLPHINS STRANDED, WASH UP DEAD ALONG US GULF COAST, OFFICIALS SAY The bottlenose dolphin washed up on shore on Upper Captiva Island in May. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the dolphin was known to area biologists when he was alive. He was last observed swimming around fishing boats and was seen with begging dolphins. – National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Monster ghost nets are very important to get out of the ocean, but it's sometimes the small ghost nets that get wrapped around whales and dolphins and kill them, even the small pieces are very important. – Mary Crowley	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It's easier to see whales and dolphins, but it's very difficult to get excited about the something covered in thousands of tons of water, at a time in the world when the environment is in crisis people protect what they love, and they love what they see. – Sonke Johnsen	Found on CNN 4 years ago
We urge the public to report any sick, stranded or dead dolphins to the local stranding network. – Teri Rowles	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Foraging with a sponge is a time-consuming and largely solitary activity so it was long thought incompatible with the needs of male dolphins in Shark Bay - to invest time in forming close alliances with other males. – Simon Allen	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
Theres a lot of things that were happening in the offseason, but right now my focus is on the task at hand, and right now thats trying out for the Miami Dolphins and thats what Im going to talk about right now. – Mark Walton	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
We cant say that the Turkish exercises killed the dolphins, but the fact that we had such an unusual increase in the number washed up dead and what we have seen must be a small percentage of the total because the Aegean has a long coastline coincided with exercises that used more than 100 ships, (The deaths) are very worrying and we cant say that the two events are unrelated. – Anastassia Miliou	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
The construction of this bridge poses quite a significant negative impact to the dolphins and caused their really great decline. – Samantha Lee	Found on Reuters 5 years ago

One of the attributes of intelligence is the ability to think and solve problems. In the early 1960s, I was told that this was unique to humans, and only we could use and make tools, only we had language and culture, but more and more research has proved that many animals are excellent at solving problems. Many use tools, and many show cultural differences. Some scientists believe that whales and dolphins are communicating with what may be a real language.

– Jane Goodall

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I am thankful that the NFL's investigator found my factual allegations against Stephen Ross are true, at the same time, I am disappointed to learn that the investigator minimized Mr. Ross's offers and pressure to tank games especially when I wrote and submitted a letter at the time to Miami Dolphins executives documenting my serious concerns regarding this subject at the time which the investigator has in her possession.

– Brian Flores

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Indeed who would be prosecuted or fined should over 500 be killed in the next two years ? No doubt if over 500 were killed in a year then those responsible would claim they did not realize that the pod was so big until it was driven into the shallows and the dolphins killed, this new' quota' is meaningless for dolphins in the long run and has only hastily been announced as a thinly-veiled attempt to deceive both politicians and the press in the face of continued outrage over the killing of dolphins in the Faroe Islands.

– Lukas Erichsen

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I’ve loved them since I was five, my love for them started when they lost to Dallas in Super Bowl VI. I just love them. I live and die with every play, and all I want for Christmas is for Miami Dolphins to win a Super Bowl before I die.

– Darius Rucker

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We were looking for the qualities of leadership, intelligence, innovation and someone who really understands what The Miami Dolphins takes for winning in the long run, first of all, he’s probably one of the brightest coaches that I’ve spoken to. When you talk to people, the first thing they ’ll say about Mike is he is innovative, he is thinking outside the box. I had coaches in his former division calling me and telling me how great he was and I said, why are you calling ? And they said, ‘ Really, to get him out of the division. ’ It says an awful lot about a person and who he is.

– Stephen Ross

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Jim Harbaugh, I love Jim Harbaugh, he had the opportunity once before to come to the Miami Dolphins. But he’s at the University of Michigan as everybody really knows. That is the school that I graduated from and I’m very involved in it, and I’m not going to be the person that takes Jim Harbaugh from the University of Michigan. I hope he stays there. He is a great coach.

– Stephen Ross

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I’ve given by heart and soul to the Miami Dolphins franchise since they drafted me in 2016, and want to make it clear that I love my teammates, they are my family. But what I’ve learned is that the business side of the NFL proves organizations don’t always have player’s best interest at heart.

– Pro Bowler

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

We are seeing this exponential increase of marine deaths, including dolphins, turtles. What is noticeable is the exponential increase started soon after this accident, we are seeing 30 to 40 cases reported daily.

– Don Muditha Katuwawala

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I think everyone in the community is frustrated, when you see dead dolphins in the water, when you see dead manatees in the water, dead sea turtles... when you have captains who have fished in the area for decades say they have never seen anything like this, that is enough to declare a state of emergency and not just say it's another naturally occurring harmful algal bloom.

– Thomas Paterek

Found on CNN
2 years ago

That's hard to test, but modern dolphins do ram tusks and kill them.

– Robert Boessenecker

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There are many other unique and strange early dolphins and baleen whales from Oligocene aged rocks in Charleston, South Carolina, because the Oligocene epoch is the time when filter feeding and echolocation first evolved, and since marine mammal localities of that time are scarce worldwide, the fossils from Charleston offer the most complete window into the early evolution of these groups.

– Robert Boessenecker

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Some dolphins use shells quite regularly during foraging, while others have only ever been seen with a shell once, so, while there may be other explanations, it's possible that some dolphins have mastered the skill more than others.

– Sonja Wild

Found on CNN
3 years ago

This is surprising, as dolphins and other toothed whales tend to follow a' do-as-mother-does' strategy for learning foraging behavior.

– Sonja Wild

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Our study shows that the foraging behavior' shelling' — where dolphins trap fish inside empty seashells — spreads through social learning among close associates.

– Sonja Wild

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Our results show that dolphins are definitely capable, and in the case of shelling, also motivated to learn new foraging tactics outside the mother-calf bond, learning from others allows for a rapid spread of novel behaviors across populations, and it has been suggested that species with the capacity for learning from others in this way may be better able to survive.

– Sonja Wild

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You can identify individual dolphins after a while by their scars and marks, because we see them so often, we couldnt tell which one was the mother because there was a group of three or four dolphins sheltering the calf.

– Rob Hughes

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said this bottlenose dolphin was speared to death in May and washed up on shore on Upper Captiva Island in Florida. A reward has been posted for information in the case. ( NOAA) HUNDREDS OF DOLPHINS STRANDED, WASH UP DEAD ALONG US GULF COAST, OFFICIALS SAY The bottlenose dolphin washed up on shore on Upper Captiva Island in May. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the dolphin was known to area biologists when he was alive. He was last observed swimming around fishing boats and was seen with begging dolphins.

– National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Monster ghost nets are very important to get out of the ocean, but it's sometimes the small ghost nets that get wrapped around whales and dolphins and kill them, even the small pieces are very important.

– Mary Crowley

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It's easier to see whales and dolphins, but it's very difficult to get excited about the something covered in thousands of tons of water, at a time in the world when the environment is in crisis people protect what they love, and they love what they see.

– Sonke Johnsen

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We urge the public to report any sick, stranded or dead dolphins to the local stranding network.

– Teri Rowles

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Foraging with a sponge is a time-consuming and largely solitary activity so it was long thought incompatible with the needs of male dolphins in Shark Bay - to invest time in forming close alliances with other males.

– Simon Allen

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Theres a lot of things that were happening in the offseason, but right now my focus is on the task at hand, and right now thats trying out for the Miami Dolphins and thats what Im going to talk about right now.

– Mark Walton

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

We cant say that the Turkish exercises killed the dolphins, but the fact that we had such an unusual increase in the number washed up dead and what we have seen must be a small percentage of the total because the Aegean has a long coastline coincided with exercises that used more than 100 ships, (The deaths) are very worrying and we cant say that the two events are unrelated.

– Anastassia Miliou

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

The construction of this bridge poses quite a significant negative impact to the dolphins and caused their really great decline.

– Samantha Lee

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

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