'Conching,' is the Latest Crazy Dolphin Fad
The intelligence of dolphins never ceases to amaze me.
Attention hipsters and other people seeking hipness: there’s a new fad catching on in Western Australia's Shark Bay, and you won’t want to be the last to to post pictures of yourself imitating it to your Tumblr feed. “Conching” is a method by which Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins are trapping small fish in conch shells, bringing the shells to the surface, and then shaking them with their rostrums to clear out the water and dump the fish into their mouths. More remarkably, the trend appears to be spreading throughout an entire population of dolphins, and fast.
This is very cool...well, cool perhaps because we humans were able to witness this behaviour.
ReplyDeleteI'm always amazed at 'how amazed' we humans are (myself included) that beings other than ourselves can be intelligent & clever.
I think it's because dolphins look like fish and we don't expect fish to be clever.
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