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Dolphins Communicate with 'Fountains of Pee'


This discovery adds to a growing list of how animals talk with their urine

Recently researchers documented Amazon River dolphins ( Inia geoffrensis) performing a curious behavior: aerial urination. Further experiments are needed to pin down precisely what’s happening, says Joachim Frommen, a behavioral ecologist at Manchester Metropolitan University in England, who was not involved in the study. This behavior is not fully understood, but the authors of a study on capuchin monkeys proposed that males might attract females via urine’s testosterone content.

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