How Did These Cetaceans Learn to Hunt with Shells?

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The scene was recorded in Queensland, Australia, and provides the first published evidence of this behavior on the east coast of the country, in addition to opening a new line of research on how dolphins learn hunting techniques Researchers documented in the waters of Queensland, Australia, indo-pacific mular dolphins using seashells as tools to catch fish, a behavior known as “shelling” that had so far only been formally studied in another Aust…

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The observation is completely new. Off the East-Australian coast, cetaceans have been filmed using large empty shells as formidable traps to catch fish. This particularly complex practice, transmitted directly from mother to child, provides definitive proof that these mammals are developing new survival techniques in a perfectly independent way.