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Old 19-08-2008, 01:06 PM
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Default 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.






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Old 19-08-2008, 01:24 PM
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That is truly amazing.. These animals are so intelligent.

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Old 19-08-2008, 01:38 PM
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wow. learned behaviour.

Don't tell Bush, he will be teaching a dolphin to fire a machine gun then telling him to run along and show his mates..


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