Affectionately named Delle, a male bottlenose dolphin, has become an unexpected resident of the Baltic Sea, far from his species’ usual warm and bustling habitats. His unusual presence near Denmark’s Svendborgsund channel has intrigued marine biologists and captivated local communities,

A solo traveler off the coast of Denmark is apparently screaming into the void, revealing the importance of social interactions for dolphins.

Is he so lonely he’s trying to communicate, or did the rest of the pod disown him because he wouldn’t shut up?

Marine biologists from the University of Southern Denmark heard about Delle and noticed a unique opportunity to listen to sounds made by an isolated dolphin in the wild. When they dropped a microphone in the area where Delle traveled for several months,

Delle might possibly be the loneliest dolphin in the world, spending his time adrift from other members of his species and desperately chatting to himself to pass the time

"If we hadn't known that Delle was alone, we might have concluded that a group of at least three dolphins was engaged in various social interactions”.