While diving off Lady Elliot Island in Australia’s southern Great Barrier Reef between 2021 and 2025, researchers and divers documented 20 occasions when this male individual—a common bottlenose ...

For generations, bottlenose dolphins have cooperated with artisanal net-casting fishers in Laguna, Brazil, to catch migratory fish called mullet. The dolphins herd groups of fish toward shore, where ...

Scientists have captured footage of bottlenose dolphins using seashells to catch fish off the Queensland coast, a discovery that sheds light on how the marine mammals learn new tricks. Researchers at ...

A bottlenose dolphin near Lady Elliot Island was filmed chasing trevally until they regurgitated food, then eating it.

The post Dolphins Are Learning a Clever Fishing Trick from Their Mothers appeared first on A-Z Animals. Dolphins are known for being some of the most intelligent and adaptable animals in the world.

Dolphins are the kind of smart that’s a little unsettling for an animal. The more we observe their behavior, the freakier they become. As researchers report in Marine Mammal Science, dolphins off ...

Some bottlenose dolphins have learned to use tools to help them catch fish, a clever technique that may be passed on from mother to calf. Scientists in Australia observed dolphins chasing fish into ...

Discover how Bubbles, a wild dolphin in Australia's Great Barrier Reef, has been observed chasing fish until they vomit, then eating their regurgitation—a fascinating instance of kleptoparasitism.

A small population of dolphins in Shark Bay in Western Australia have a documented history of using an unusual tool to help them catch fish: Large, empty snail shells. For the first time, scientists ...

Scientists have documented humans and dolphins teaming up to fish together in a handful of places around the world—and now, for the first time, in the United States.