Why These Dolphins Behead Their Prey

7/27/2017
(Click to enlarge) A common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) bit off the head of this marine catfish in the northern Gulf of Mexico.
7/18/2017
Though dolphins usually eat their prey whole, they sometimes get fancy in their meal preparation. Rough-toothed dolphins in the eastern ...
Marine biologists discovered that some of the Gulf's common bottlenose dolphins are decapitating marine catfish. The behavior is ...
7/17/2017
In a first, marine biologists have discovered that some of the Gulf's common bottlenose dolphins have a knack for decapitating native marine catfish.

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