One of this weekend’s hot stories has been the account of female Spencer Gulf Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins prepping their cuttlefish meals.
For any dolphins reading this, here’s the method to use (as was explained in a piece written by Christine Dell’Amore on the National Geographic website:
The female herded a cuttlefish to the seafloor, pinned it with her snout, and thrusted downward, breaking the cuttlefish’s internal shell, or cuttlebone, and instantly killing it.
The dolphin then raised the dead body into the water and beat it with her snout, draining its ink.
Next the prey was returned to the seafloor, where the dolphin scraped it along the sand to strip off its bone.
