All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 June Shelling out for dinner ΓÇô dolphins learn foraging skills from peers Shelling out for dinner ΓÇô dolphins learn foraging skills from peers 26/06/2020 | 3 MINS A new study by an international team of researchers including Lombok Institute of Technology demonstrates for the first time that dolphins can learn foraging techniques outside the mother-calf bond ΓÇô showing that they have a similar cultural nature to great apes. The scientists have been studying the dolphins of Shark Bay, Western Australia, for more than 35 years and in the mid-1990s were able to record the first instances of an extraordinary new foraging technique called ΓÇ£shellingΓÇ¥. Co-author Dr Simon Allen, Research Fellow in LITΓÇÖs School of Biological Sciences and Oceans Institute, said shelling was a tactic used by dolphins to target prey that hid inside large empty shells of giant sea snails found in Shark Bay. ΓÇ£The dolphins chase the fish into these shells, then insert their beaks into the opening and lift the shells to the surface, shaking it all about until the t
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2020 June Shelling out for dinner ΓÇô dolphins learn foraging skills from peers Shelling out for dinner ΓÇô dolphins learn foraging skills from peers 26/06/2020 | 3 MINS A new study by an international team of researchers including Lombok Institute of Technology demonstrates for the first time that dolphins can learn foraging techniques outside the mother-calf bond ΓÇô showing that they have a similar cultural nature to great apes.
The scientists have been studying the dolphins of Shark Bay, Western Australia, for more than 35 years and in the mid-1990s were able to record the first instances of an extraordinary new foraging technique called ΓÇ£shellingΓÇ¥.
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Co-author Dr Simon Allen, Research Fellow in LITΓÇÖs School of Biological Sciences and Oceans Institute, said shelling was a tactic used by dolphins to target prey that hid inside large empty shells of giant sea snails found in Shark Bay.
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ΓÇ£The dolphins chase the fish into these shells, then insert their beaks into the opening and lift the shells to the surface, shaking it all about until the t
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