The Dolphin Alliance Project is seeking to understand what dolphins are doing with the largest brains after humans (taking body size into account) at the best place in the world to learn about dolphin intelligence in the wild. Forty years of research on Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins in World Heritage listed Shark Bay, Western Australia, has revealed the most complex non-human society known, with multi-level male alliances and cultural behavior that includes tool use. FIU researchers are part of an international effort to use new technology to better understand the remarkable dolphin society in Shark Bay.
