BOCA RATON, Fla., May 5 (UPI) -- Dolphins aren't online. But they do enjoy social networks -- extensive and complex collections of friends. A new study by scientists at Florida Atlantic University details the manner in which dolphin societies organize themselves.
Over a six-year period, researchers at Florida Atlantic's Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute used special photo-identification technology to observe and track the interactions between bottlenose dolphins in the Indian River Lagoon.