Watch smart dolphins build a jail from mud to trap fish for dinner

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Hello, and thanks for all the fish?

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In Savannah we have dolphins with a peculiar skill of driving fish up onto the marsh mud banks then beaching themselves temporarily so they can scoop the fish up. We’re told it’s a local phenomenon.

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And evidence of a form of culture in cetaceans. Similar sorts of things are seen elsewhere among dolphins and orcas, at least, that I am aware of. Brilliant creatures. If they could have made fire under water, they might be studying us. Or are they?

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Give a dolphin a fish and you feed it for a day. Teach a dolphin to fish…

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I’ve heard dolphins do this too near Charleston, Kiawah, and Folly Beach in SC, but that’s fairly close.

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And he will laugh and laugh. “Stupid monkey is trying to teach me to do what I do. Might as well teach me to swim!”

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