Awesome. As I've never seen this behavior, I take it this is a trick this dolphin learned on its own. Do we know if any of the dolphins it's tanked with can imitate the trick? Maybe this is a dolphin prodigy...
http://bubblerings.com/bubblerings/faq.cfm Bunch of info about bubble rings, and how to make them, from a guy who's invented a device to do it. There's also some cool video, including a huge bubble ring from a whale.
I've seen the corraling trick on TV shows - a pack (pod?) of dolphins create a circular wall of bubbles around a school of prey fish.
No doubt that dolphins are way smart. If we ever figure out the brain transference thing, I'd love to be a dolphin. Or maybe a whale. At least for a while.
Not sure what this had to do with bubble rings, Andrew, but have to admit that may be one of the most clever (and committed) dogs I've ever seen. I especially thought that the last scene where the other pups gather at the still closed gate to wave goodbye was poignantly cute. Funny stuff!
That is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen.
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I thought, for a moment, that they were trying to tell us where we'd gone wrong...
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ReplyDeleteAwesome. As I've never seen this behavior, I take it this is a trick this dolphin learned on its own. Do we know if any of the dolphins it's tanked with can imitate the trick? Maybe this is a dolphin prodigy...
ReplyDeleteSomehow, I was imagining the dolphins humming "I was only blowing bubbles..." in unison as they danced through the water. Very cool and surprising.
ReplyDeleteIn the article they state that this behaviour is common.
ReplyDeleteI could be wrong but to me it looks as if they are using their sonar to help shape the rings.
http://bubblerings.com/bubblerings/faq.cfm
ReplyDeleteBunch of info about bubble rings, and how to make them, from a guy who's invented a device to do it. There's also some cool video, including a huge bubble ring from a whale.
On some nature show, I think I heard that whales use this method to corrale fish and plankton into a managable mass during feeding.
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There's a video of a Beluga whale doing something similar in Japan IIRC*.I'll go look.
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* Though maybe without the reshaping stuff.
What climbing a fence to get out of a garden shed?
ReplyDeleteI've seen the corraling trick on TV shows - a pack (pod?) of dolphins create a circular wall of bubbles around a school of prey fish.
ReplyDeleteNo doubt that dolphins are way smart. If we ever figure out the brain transference thing, I'd love to be a dolphin. Or maybe a whale. At least for a while.
Not sure what this had to do with bubble rings, Andrew, but have to admit that may be one of the most clever (and committed) dogs I've ever seen. I especially thought that the last scene where the other pups gather at the still closed gate to wave goodbye was poignantly cute. Funny stuff!
ReplyDeleteDogfish? - No, nothing to do with porpoises / whales etc... I just had to post it somewhere!
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ReplyDeleteWhen meeting up at sea, bottlenose dolphins exchange name-like whistles
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