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Orcas and dolphins caught on video collaborating to hunt salmon - Orcas listen to dolphin echolocation, dolphins feed on salmon scraps: new study (www.cbc.ca)

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Dolphins have often been considered “pesky critters” who steal fish from the orcas, according to Sarah Fortune, assistant professor of oceanography at Dalhousie University in Halifax and Canadian Wildlife Federation chair of large whale conservation.

But that’s not what was happening — on deep, deep dives below, the dolphins and orcas were communicating.

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[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 1 points 4 weeks ago

Very cool.

[–] TribblesBestFriend@startrek.website 1 points 4 weeks ago

That is fucking interesting

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Oh wonderful, now if I'm lost at sea and see dolphins I gotta worry about a Orca coming to eat me!

But really that's super cool, so many things we don't know about nature and animals.