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Young boy (13 years old) interacting with a bottle-nose dolphin

Dolphins often seem to want to befriend us — do they know something we don’t?

Source: Independent

Even when it doesn’t seem to benefit them, dolphins will often go to great lengths to help and interact with humans. Read about some well-known examples and possible reasons for this behavior.

This entry was posted in Animal Intelligence and tagged Science & Nature on February 1, 2019 by Mikki Gibson.

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