Do they eat salmon? Maybe they are signaling to the humans that their ships and garbage are killing off their food.
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Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 9 months agoI’m thinking more of a lure, have some nice rotten salmon smell leaking out of your “hat” and hope that some tasty fish, sharks or seals show up looking for a meal.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
Both a fashion accessory and a perfume. Touche.
peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 9 months ago
IIRC Orcas are one of the species that does shit that appears to have no biological advantage. Other species of dolphins do too.
Dolphins as a whole have some really creative behaviors, especially in social circles. And it appears that they do these things “for the hell of it.”
LwL@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If humans are any indicator, they might also be doing things because they think it’s an advantage but actually does nothing.
Pringles@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
Dolphins will get high on poisonous fish and pass those around like a blunt.
nickiam2@aussie.zone 9 months ago
Well I didn’t believe it but scienceadvance.com/dolphins-may-be-using-toxic-pu…
outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
We must give the dolphins edibles.
shneancy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
they were already giving dolphins LSD, masturbating them and trying to make them speak English, i think we should just let them have their pufferfish