Interspecies Cooperation

Courtesy of Fábio Daura-Jorge, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina.

For more than 100 years, bottlenose dolphins have cooperated with artisanal net-casting fishers in Laguna, Brazil, to catch migratory fish called mullet. In a new study, scientists investigated the mechanisms that allow this mutually beneficial relationship to exist and asked whether it can persist in the face of current and predicted environmental and cultural changes.

Read the whole story at my Animal Minds blog: Dolphins and Humans Partner to Catch Fish.