You've seen dolphins shimmy along the top of the water balanced on their tails at Sea World or on TV, but the behavior has spread to the ocean!
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(image credit: WDCS/Mike Bossley)
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.
Scientists studying the group say tail-walk tuition has not been seen before, and suggest the habit may emerge as a form of "culture" among this group.
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(image credit: WDCS/Mike Bossley)
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Might it give them a way of getting a better look around above water much like the spy hopping behavior of larger cetaceans?
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if they see us they will filp so i guess i got to slip oh no it looks like i triped so much for my lip
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i see it there i see it yess i do yess i do i see it yes i do it there right there i see it there right there but where maybe right there south of no where maybe a bear could lend a hair and show me where it is over there but lets be fair maybe there is a tear over the bear south over there
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Oh no! Dolphin society has been tainted by contact with evil humans! Nature will never be the same.
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"So long and thanks for all the fish"
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