Photo: Rare "Snubby" Dolphins Spit to Hunt



Snubfin dolphins, like the one above, hunt together by chasing fish to the surface and then "spitting" water at them to herd them for the kill, conservationists announced in April 2009.

The Australian dolphins are now the second dolphin species known to use this unusual cooperative hunting technique.

Photograph by Guido J. Parra, courtesy WWF


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