Male Amazon river dolphins have been documented rolling the other way up and firing a stream of urine into the air. As if that isn’t weird sufficient, different males will often search out the urine because it arcs again all the way down to the water, presumably to obtain social cues in an identical strategy to how land mammals use scent marking.
Claryana Araújo-Wang at CetAsia Analysis Group in Ontario, Canada, and her colleagues documented the bizarre behaviour whereas…
Article amended on 3 February 2025
We corrected the scientific title of the bottlenose dolphin.