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Seedersandleechers

(3,044 posts)
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 09:47 PM Apr 2013

Dolphin Assisted Fishing

Laguna is a Brazilian city located in the southern state of Santa Catarina.

An interesting collaboration has developed in Laguna: a pod of bottlenose dolphins drive fish towards fishermen who stand at the beach in shallow waters. Then one dolphin rolls over, which the fishermen take as sign to throw out their nets. The dolphins feed on the escaping fish. They were not trained for this behavior; the collaboration has been going on at least since 1847. The phenomenon – which also occurs in parts of West Africa but nowhere else in the world – has for years attracted marine biologists and natural historians to Laguna to study the bizarre, communal relationship.





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Dolphin Assisted Fishing (Original Post) Seedersandleechers Apr 2013 OP
The dolphins have the humans well trained. RC Apr 2013 #1
Kind of like cats Seedersandleechers Apr 2013 #2
The ones here want me to catch the fish and then feed them. rzemanfl Apr 2013 #3
Okay, that's really ... odd. nt scrubthedata Apr 2013 #4
Not really. Dolphins cooperate with each other to catch their fish. This probably started when 1monster Apr 2013 #6
Pretty cool! n/t bitchkitty Apr 2013 #5
Notice how they keep luring the humans deeper out? This is obviously a trap. Bucky Apr 2013 #7

rzemanfl

(29,540 posts)
3. The ones here want me to catch the fish and then feed them.
Fri Apr 19, 2013, 10:00 PM
Apr 2013

Not supposed to do it, but I am not about to argue with a big marine mammal that is swimming where I am wading.

1monster

(11,012 posts)
6. Not really. Dolphins cooperate with each other to catch their fish. This probably started when
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 11:45 AM
Apr 2013

a dolphin or two noticed fishermen casting their nets and found that the mullet paniced and broke formation and madet them easier to catch.

Dolphins are social creatures and would have shared their knowledge with the other members of their pods. Thus, a tradition was born. Fishermen, maybe more slowly than the dolphins, caught on to the advantages of collaboration and both groups passed what became a tradition down from generation to generation...

It's a Win/Win for everyone.... but the mullet.

Bucky

(53,795 posts)
7. Notice how they keep luring the humans deeper out? This is obviously a trap.
Sat Apr 20, 2013, 06:14 PM
Apr 2013

Don't fuck with dolphins after they've acquired a taste for human flesh. I can't believe these shmucks are falling for this set up. All that chattering probably is dolphinspeak for "So long and thanks for all the Brazilians."

Somewhere tonight, George Bush is crying.

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