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Dolphin - Feeding | | Dolphin - Feeding: Encyclopedia II - Dolphin - Feeding | | Dolphins are predators, chasing their prey at high speed. The dentition is adapted to the animals they hunt: Species with long beaks and many teeth forage on fish, whereas short beaks and lesser tooth count are linked to catching squid. Some dolphins may take crustaceans. Usually, the prey is swallowed whole. The larger species, especially the orca, are capable of eating marine mammals, even large whales. There are no known repor ...
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Dolphin - Feeding
Dolphins are predators, chasing their prey at high speed. The dentition is adapted to the animals they hunt: Species with long beaks and many teeth forage on fish, whereas short beaks and lesser tooth count are linked to catching squid. Some dolphins may take crustaceans. Usually, the prey is swallowed whole. The larger species, especially the orca, are capable of eating marine mammals, even large whales. There are no known reports of cannibalism amongst dolphins.
Individual species may employ a number of methods of hunting:
- Herding - where a superpod will control a school of fish while individual members take turns plowing through the herd, feeding.
- Corralling - where fish are chased to shallow water where they are more easily captured.
- Fish Wacking - where the dolphin uses its fluke to strike the fish, stunning it and sometimes sending it clear out of the water.
- Stunning - using the echolocation melon, very loud clicks are directed at prey, stunning them.
- Foraging - A recent study reported that wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops) in Western Australia use sponges to forage in the sea bed for food.[1]
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