A dolphin has bitten two more swimmers on the arm, in what is believed to be the latest in a string of attacks on a Japanese beach. According to local media, at least one man was taken to hospital ...

Japan has started its controversial annual dolphin hunt in the coastal town ... has been conducting what it said were research missions killing hundreds of animals each year.

A recent issue of the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science contains the findings of a clinical veterinary and behavioral analysis of the killing methods being ...

A dolphin attacking swimmers in Japan is probably lonely and sexually frustrated, experts say. At least 18 people have been ...

Tadamichi Morisaka is a researcher specializing in dolphin ecology at Japan's Mie University in Tsu. In a comment to the scientific magazine Nature, he explained that dolphins express emotions ...

The dolphin show was retained, but most staff members returned to their own aquariums on the Japanese mainland and many dolphins died as they were kept in unstable conditions. An expressway ...

Marine experts say it is not unusual for dolphins to come close to beaches. The mammals inhabit a range of waters around Japan, according to Tetsuya Matsuoka, who manages the Notojima Aquarium in ...

AWI and others publically condemned the hunt and urged international action. Media attention exploded after the US Ambassador to Japan, Caroline Kennedy, made an online statement via Twitter: “Deeply ...

Dolphins have wounded four people in a spate of attacks off the coast of Japan, according to reports in the local media. Japanese daily Asahi Shinbun, citing local police, said a dolphin injured a ...