A DOLPHIN has been talking to himself and crying into the void for years as he swims in the Baltic Sea alone, a heartbreaking study has found. The bottlenose dolphin called Delle explores the Baltic Sea alone despite his species being incredibly social. Advertisement 2 Bottlenose dolphins are famously social creatures, living in pods that can range in size from 10 to over 1,000 (stock) Credit: Alamy 2 Delle, a bottlenose dolphin off the Danish coast has been recorded talking to himself and crying out into an ocean empty of fellow dolphins (stock) Credit: Getty They often interact with each other by whistling and commonly travel and hunt in pods usually made up of between 10 and 30 members.
However, superpods have been recorded of over 1,000 bottlenose dolphins. In 2019, Delle arrived in Denmark's Svendborgsund Channel, a location that is not typical for his species. Despite no other dolphins being in the area, he was still there years later when researchers launched a study between December 2022 and February 2023.
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