[CINC] Dolphin bubble rings

[Paul Jr. Petrich]

Thanks Josh,
 This makes me wonder if the plastic  bags I saw draped around Spinner  Dolphin ( like a  necklace ) in Hawaii two  years ago, were objects of play rather than food? Either way,  not good.    Paul

Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:59:53 -0700
From: rain at applexpert.com
To: Channel_islands_naturalist_corps at rain.org
Subject: [CINC] Dolphin bubble rings




Dolphin bubble rings



After seeing Scott Robertson’s post on this intriguing bit of video, I did a little checking of my own on its veracity. As Scott correctly points out, http://www.snopes.com is a very good clearing house for checking into potential urban legends. I did a search of their site and came up with the following:



http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/dolphinrings.asp



It’s exciting to see that this behavior is not only true, but documented in the professional literature:



http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/bjmccowan/Pubs/McCowanetal.JCP.2000.pdf



What amazing creatures!



Cheers,

Josh



Josh Kaye-Carr

Channel Islands Naturalist Corps

Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary

Channel Islands National Park

Photo/Video/Media Support

National Park Service Diver



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