smell is the first sense, pretty much. single-celled organisms already have it.
of course, in some ways, it’s not as easy as for example vision. you need 3 different kinds of photoreceptors to see pretty much all that there is to see, but you need god knows how many chemical receptors in your nose (or all over your cell wall in the case of bacteria or the like) to sense all the interesting stuff floating around.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
on 25 Apr 19:23
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They smell like the toys in my mother’s nightstand.
“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.”
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Me too, but I don’t get an article written about me
I had no idea dolphins and even fish could smell.
smell is the first sense, pretty much. single-celled organisms already have it.
of course, in some ways, it’s not as easy as for example vision. you need 3 different kinds of photoreceptors to see pretty much all that there is to see, but you need god knows how many chemical receptors in your nose (or all over your cell wall in the case of bacteria or the like) to sense all the interesting stuff floating around.
They smell like the toys in my mother’s nightstand.
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?
That gives the phrase “piss off” a whole new meaning.
—courtesy of my wife
It’s a cetacean micturation week, huh?
Humans do too all the time because not everyone can hear spoken language.
EDIT: After doing some reading I have now learned about sign language and how I owe the local deaf community a huge apology.
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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?
Bruh… RTFA. It’s seriously, like 3 minutes, and that’s if you read the entire thing.
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
Is it just three paragraphs or am I missing something here? It feels like it ends abruptly especially for a SA article
Wtf is that picture? Is that real, Orange dolphins?
It’s gotta be AI. The whole dolphin looks… off.
That site must be satire.Maybe not satire but wtf that image is odd.
It’s a river dolphin. The water is probably dark with tannins.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_dolphin
I had no idea. Thank you!
Do the dolphins aim the pee fountain into the whale urine funnel?
What are the chances they figured out we’re trying to decode their speech and they’re trolling us?