Tuesday, August 19, 2008

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Wild dolphins tail-walk on water

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Wild dolphins tail-walk on water: "A wild dolphin is apparently teaching other members of her group to walk on their tails, a behaviour usually seen only after training in captivity.

The tail-walking group lives along the south Australian coast near Adelaide.

One of them spent a short time after illness in a dolphinarium 20 years ago and may have picked up the trick there.

Scientists studying the group say tail-walk tuition has not been seen before, and suggest the habit may emerge as a form of 'culture' among this group."

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