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Dolphins Filmed Using Sea Shells as Tools in Rare Sighting off Australia


Marine biologists have documented Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) using large sea shells to hunt for fish off the coast of Queensland, Australia -- only the second place in the world where this behavior, known as shelling, has ever been recorded.

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