Dolphin Teamwork

[winnietakesall]

Believe me..this is more than even our dear Atteborough sees: these dolphins are feeding the birds on purpose. The dolphin looks at the shore to verify that his friends, the birds, are there waiting for a gift of fish!

[jien1983]

That is why Sir Attenbororough is national treasure.

[92af]

David Attenborough is awesome

[patricknelson]

Dolphins have to have language... they've demonstrated that they can understand symbolism, that they can understand abstract concepts and solve difficult puzzles. I'm sure they have some advanced way to communicate (if that hasn't already been proven, it seems to me that they should).

[DejectedPanda]

@patricknelson You'd think they must to come up with strategies like that.

[Dalianon]

How do the birds know where the dolphins will push the fishes up?

[DaveMorganNZ]

far out these creatures are smarter than some humans i know

[nhmllr725]

That depends on how you define "smart"

[halldori]

Damn, they are precise. :o)

It's like: "Ready, Steady, GO!"

[chakazul]

Dolphins are wonderful creatures~~

I like how their action interrupted Sir Attenborough's speech :P

[thestarduster]

HEAPS of animals hunt in teams...just like this...but you don't hear people going on about them being so intelligent. Elephants outwit any dolphin in terms of intelligence if you actually research it with an unbias, open mind.

[THES0L0IST]

No but point of the video is that only this group of dolphins uses this method. Even though this species of dolphins live around the world, this particular group in the south of the US uses this method showing that dolphins can learn outside their general ways.

[tigercubkitten]

I'm not sure that's true. Wired Science ran an article the other day about dolphins and whales generally being the smartest creatures after humans, and ahead of non-human apes and obviously head of elephants.

Though, of course, more research may lead to other conclusions; and elephants obviously are tremendously intelligent and social creatures.

[thestarduster]

What kind of dolphin or whale, tigercub? Not all dolphins are equally intelligent...infact, many don't show "any special ability at problem solving" according to Bernd Wursig in the text "Dolphins" and very few "live up to the public expectation". As for a few species having convoluted brains, their brain is actually much thinner with far less neurons than humans (and elephants for that matter). Dolphins are far too generalized.