TAIJI, Japan (CNN)-- Mention a dolphin to someone in the United States and they'll think about a trip to Sea World or the 1960s-era TV program "Flipper." Talk about a dolphin in rural Japan and ...

But in Japan’s Wakasa Bay, swimmers are on high alert for yet another underwater threat: dolphins—or, according to some theories, a lone male bottlenose dolphin who seemingly likes to bite and ...

Dolphins live and hunt in large social groups called pods, and they communicate with each other using high-pitched clicks and ...

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 ...

Signs have been put in Fukui prefecture up telling swimmers to avoid approaching or touching the mammals. Swimmers have been injured in dolphin attacks on a beach in central Japan, officials say ...

The dolphin was seen during the summer at more than one swimming beach on the Sea of Japan side of Japan, where it gave swimmers “love bites” of the sort that dolphins typically give one another.

An aquarium in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, which was severely damaged by a powerful earthquake that devastated the ...

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 used in the notorious Taiji dolphin ...