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    What Is It Like to Be a Dolphin?

    Maybe dolphins are more “tuned in” with the world around them, by necessity: a holistic blend of the physical, sensory, and cognitive, all seamless enough to remember to go up for air. Photograph by Matthew Baya / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Humans have come to fetishize […]
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    The Animals That Taste Only Saltiness

      Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . Taste plays an important function for most animals far beyond enriching their culinary experiences. At its most basic level, it’s a last-ditch defense against poison, telling the eater whether to swallow or spit out a mouthful of potentially lethal material.Humans can detect […]