Wild Kratts
Dolphin: Food and Health
Clip: Season 2 | 1m 1sVideo has Closed Captions
Chris learns one of the dolphin's group tactics to get food.
Chris swims with a group of dolphins who are on the hunt for some tuna fish. Using their language of clicks and whistles, the dolphins swim around the fish to trap them and push them to the surface. Once the fish have nowhere to go but up, the dolphins catch and eat them.
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Wild Kratts
Dolphin: Food and Health
Clip: Season 2 | 1m 1sVideo has Closed Captions
Chris swims with a group of dolphins who are on the hunt for some tuna fish. Using their language of clicks and whistles, the dolphins swim around the fish to trap them and push them to the surface. Once the fish have nowhere to go but up, the dolphins catch and eat them.
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Catching fish, dolphin-style!
(Dolphins click-whistling) Got it.
That click whistle must mean something like, "Circle the fish!"
No problem.
I'’’m with you, guys!
Oof!
Sorry, wrong way.
This way, right?
(Whistle-clicking) Ha!
I got this now.
We'’’re herding the fish into a tight ball-- a bait ball!
This is genius.
Talk about a smart creature, and by communicating you can cooperate and work together.
(Clicking rapidly) Oh, up.
Got it!
That whistle means move them up.
You'’’re pushing them right to the surface, aren'’’t you?
So they'’’ll have nowhere to escape to.
Ha!
Brilliant!
Oh, now the feast begins!
Dinner time for dolphins!
No wonder they'’’re one of the smartest creatures on earth: a language, smart hunting strategy, and one of the largest brains for their size.
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