“It’s almost as if the dolphins are training the humans.”
. In the small coastal city of Laguna, men wait for the marine mammals to swim up a narrow lagoon, herding silvery mullet from the Atlantic Ocean into shallower waters. As soon as the fishers spot a dolphin slapping its tail, lifting its head, and diving deeply, they race into the water with their nets.
“We knew the fishers were observing the dolphins to determine when to throw their nets,” Cantor says. “But we didn’t know if the dolphins were coordinating their behaviors with the fishers.” The study “shows convincingly that when both species get their timing right, the fishers catch more mullet, and the dolphins emit more terminal buzzes”—the special echolocation clicks that indicate a successful hunt, says Claire Spottiswoode, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Cambridge who was not involved in this research.
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