Octopuses can stick their tentacles to throats and suffocate anything trying to eat it. Dolphins solved that problem. NationalDolphinDay
Most people who eat octopus prefer it immobile, cut into pieces and nicely grilled or otherwise cooked. For some, though, the wiggly, sucker-covered arms of a live octopus— even though those arms can stick to the throat and suffocate the diner if they haven’t been chopped into small enough pieces.
A group of hungry dolphins off the coast of Western Australia have figured out a solution. They shake and toss their prey until the head falls off, the animal is in pieces and its arms are tender andThe behavior, never before reported, was discovered during observations between March 2007 and August 2013 of bottlenose dolphins living in the waters off Bunbury, Western Australia. During that time, researchers witnessed 33 events in which dolphins handled an octopus with two different methods.
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