Posted on 05/21/2020 4:44:10 AM PDT by C19fan
Dolphins who frequent Australia’s Tin Can Bay, a popular tourist spot, have taken to bringing “gifts” ashore, apparently missing the visitors who would normally be lined up to feed them before the coronavirus pandemic. The pod of humpback dolphins has brought sponges, barnacle-covered bottles and fragments of coral to Queensland’s Barnacles Cafe & Dolphin Feeding in recent weeks, a volunteer told Australia’s 7News. “Nothing surprises me with dolphins and their behavior anymore,” Barry McGovern, a dolphin expert and PhD student at University of Queensland, told the outlet. “They do everything - they use tools, they have culture, they have something similar to names in signature whistles."
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I can never understand why my cat leaves mice at the door after I leave. doesn’t he realize that I can’t see what he is doing and I can’t see the mice as I’ve already left. Yes I understand he is a cat :-)
But your cat does not recognize he is a cat.
Call me cynical, but I think that has a LOT to do with their current behavior.
Kind of like a cargo cult...
Cats don’t have a strong “you can’t see me” sense, at all, which is why they hide their head while their whole body is still out in the open.
You’re a domestic servant though. Your cat’s waiting for you to clean and dress the kills.
Too cute. Let’s adopt the little creatures and keep them confined to the bathtub.
It’s worse than that. He saw Little Caesar once and now he thinks he is Edward G Robinson
:)
“I can never understand why my cat leaves mice at the door after I leave. doesn’t he realize that I can’t see what he is doing and I can’t see the mice as I’ve already left. Yes I understand he is a cat :-)”
After some surgery, my Standard Poodle brought me little dead amimals and put them quietly by by bed. It was awkward but cute.
:) that is cute
What animal, including the human animal, doesn’t love a free meal?
So, these dolphins are engaging in a cargo cult.
IMO, the dolphins were “cleaning house”. Too much garbage in the sea.
Agreed. They want to keep the ocean tidy (pun intended).
I am told that cats who leave mice are supplementing what they regard as inadequate food provision. So eat up!
The only wet food my cat gets is what she can catch.
Wait a minute! What’s a Pisano doing ordering from Little Caesar? Don’t you have an Papa Ginos on Staten Island?
Dolphin Cargo Cult...
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