Dolphin Moms Teach Daughters to Use Tools!

A dolphin mother figured out how to use a marine sponge to protect her snout while fishing around in the seabed in Shark Bay, Western Australia. She taught the technique to her daughter, who then taught her daughter too. This is evidence of a tool-use culture in marine mammals.

A growing body of research suggests that some animal populations invent behaviors that are passed to other generations. Well, we do, so why wouldn’t they?

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