Why dolphins are the best calamari chefs in the ocean

Daily Mail ^ | 30th January 2009

[Lorianne]

Dolphins are fantastic sea chefs who have mastered the art of rustling up a soft meal of calamari, say scientists.

The intelligent sea mammals have been spotted going through precise and elaborate preparations to rid cuttlefish of ink and bone to produce a soft meal of calamari.

Australian researchers observed one wild female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin

The research team, writing in the science journal PLoS One, said they repeatedly observed a female dolphin herding cuttlefish out of algal weed and onto a clear, sandy patch of seafloor.

The dolphin, identified using circular body scars, then pinned the cuttlefish with its snout while standing on its head, before killing it instantly with a rapid downward thrust and 'loud click' audible to divers as the hard cuttlebone broke. The dolphin then lifted the body up and beat it with her nose to drain the toxic black ink that cuttlefish squirt into the water to defend themselves when attacked. Next the prey was taken back to the seafloor, where the dolphin scraped it along the sand to strip out the cuttlebone, making the cuttlefish soft for eating.

[Lorianne]

mmmmmm

[Lorianne]

[jpl]

Suddenly I’m in the mood for seafood.

[KarlInOhio]

Can they remove the neurotoxin from blowfish? Fugu me, Flipper!

[mnehring]

Unfortunately, canned Tuna doesn’t have dolphin in it any more, it just doesn’t taste right without it.

[Travis T. OJustice]

Calamari is squid, not cuttlefish.

[theDentist]

You know what the difference is between dolphin and porpoise?

You serve porpoise with red wine, and dolphin with white.

[mvpel]

[Psalm 73]

"The dolphin...pinned the cuttlefish with its snout...before killing it instantly..."

Aaacckkk, this is inhumane and barbaric - SAVE THE CUTTLEFISH - NOW.
We must ban this horrific practice by those vile Republican dolphins......

[ROLF of the HILL COUNTRY]

“Calamari is squid, not cuttlefish.”

And the ink is not toxic; it’s often used in sauces.
The dolphin just must not care for it.

[Lorianne]

No, a Republican dolphin would ‘waterboard’ the cuttlefish first. /s

[SpinnerWebb]

Jack Sparrow: Cuttlefish. Eh? Let us not, dear friends, forget our dear friends the cuttlefish... flipper conories little sausages. Pin them up together and they will devour each other without a second thought... Human nature, in'it?
Ooor... fish nature... So yes... we could hold up here well-provisioned and well-armed and half of us would be dead within the month! Which seems grim to me any way you slice it!
Or... ahh... as my learned colleague so naively suggests, we can release Calypso, and we can pray that she will be merciful... I rather doubt it. Can we in fact pretend that she is anything other than a woman scorned, like which fury Hell hath no? We cannot.
Res ipsa loquitur, tabula in naufragio, we are left with but one option. I agree with, and I cannot believe the words are coming out of me mouth... Captain Swann. We must fight.

[Minn]

You serve porpoise with red wine, and dolphin with white.

Weemsco Tuna has the great dolphin flavor you grew up with. In fact, it's chock full of dolphin because now there's more for us to use.

[GeraldP]

So long and thanks for all the calamari
So sad that it should come to this
We tried to warn you all but oh dear?

You may not share our intellect
Which might explain your disrespect
For all the natural wonders that
grow around you

So long, so long and thanks
for all the calamari

The world’s about to be destroyed
There’s no point getting all annoyed
Lie back and let the planet dissolve

Despite those nets of tuna fleets
We thought that most of you were sweet
Especially tiny tots and your
pregnant women

So long, so long, so long, so long, so long
So long, so long, so long, so long, so long

So long, so long and thanks
for all the calamari