Dolphins use tools to obtain fish in rare activity caught on camera
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- Dolphins off Western Australia carry sea sponges on their beaks while foraging along the ocean floor — a rare tool-use behaviour passed mainly from mothers to daughters, making it one of the few animal cultures shaped so strongly by gender ScienceBlog.com · 12d ago
- Dolphins on opposite sides of Australia, thousands of kilometres apart, appear to have independently learned to chase fish into empty seashells and tip the trapped meal into their mouths Space Daily · 12d ago broke it first
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