An Amazing First: Two Species Cooperate to Hunt

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[SmoothTalker]

Interesting find

[kinoxi]

They adapt.

[conservative cat]

I'd believe it. Our greyhound pulled a turkey carcass out of the trash after Thanksgiving one year, and he and the cat shared it.

[kaehurowing]

Sort of like p.i. lawyers and "expert witnesses."

[aruanan]

An Amazing First: Two Species Cooperate to Hunt

Dogs and humans have been doing that for thousands of years.

[American in Israel]

Yeah, but dogs are smarter than fish.

[Jeff Chandler]

dogs are smarter than fish.

You have obviously never owned an Irish Setter.

[PAR35]

Yeah, but dogs are smarter than fish.

Some people are also smarter than fish.

[Ditter]

I am smart enough NOT to own an Irish Setter. They even look stupid.

[TigersEye]

Dogs and humans have been doing that for thousands of years.

lol Spoil sport.

[kipita]

This is the biggest fear of the West! We need to keep all lone hunters isolated.

[wolfpat]

Some people are also smarter than fish.

The rest vote democrat.

[Louis Foxwell]

Humans do not live as equals in a species rich environment. Those humans who prefer to acknowledge the intellectual, spiritual, and moral superiority of other species are an aberration. They are obviously an inferior morph.
Fish are uniquely interspecies socialized. Numerous species travel with shark packs to feed. Wrasses act as parasite cleaners at cleaning stations. Some fish (and birds) seek out surrogate parents for their broods.
There are countless examples of interspecies cooperation for casual and profound activity. If chickens and cattle were not so easily domesticated our food supply would be substantially more problematic. Even the lowly maize exists only to serve mankind. It has no known ancestry outside human cultivation.

[Jezebelle]

*SNORT* :>

[spetznaz]

There is a bird in Africa that also does something similar (I cannot recall its name right now). It finds a swarm of bees (meaning: honey), and then goes off to look for a Honey Badger. Once it finds one, it makes a particular call and the Honey Badger follows the bird to where the bees are, the Badger roots the hive to consume the honey, and the bird feeds off pieces of honey that have dropped.

If a Honey Badger is not readily available the bird will fly off and look for a human (some tribes will follow the bird since it usually means easy food). Once again the person will pull down the honey combs from the tree (we are talking about wild bees here), and usually leave a comb behind for the bird. (There are some reports of birds leading off people who did not give it anything to dangerous areas .....eg near a pride of lions).

[savedbygrace]

There are some reports of birds leading off people who did not give it anything to dangerous areas .....eg near a pride of lions).

"Bad bird."

[gusopol3]

that's right!

[SmoothTalker]

The article does have the caveat that humans are the exception to this.

[kaehurowing]

The analogy works on multiple levels.

For example, eels, groupers, lawyers and "experts" are all bottom feeders.

[American in Israel]

Some people are smarter than fish

Not many...