image: A. Dolphin S with camera attached to the left side of her harness. B. Dolphin S drills into the sea floor to seize a fish. Notice the white of the eye or sclera (arrow) shows the eye rotated toward the fish. C. Dolphin S brings out the fish with lips flaring in the posterior half of the gape area to show the upper tooth row and gular area expanding. view more
Credit: Ridgway et al., 2022, PLOS ONE, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)
Navy dolphins wearing video cameras capture the sights and sounds as they hunt fish and even a sea snake
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Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0265382
Article Title: Sights and sounds dolphins, Tursiops truncatus preying on native fish of San Diego Bay and offshore in the Pacific Ocean
Author Countries: U.S.A.
Funding: The authors (SR, DD) received funding from the Office of Naval Research (https://www.onr.navy.mil/). The associated grant number is 12604848. In addition, authors received funding from the National Marine Mammal Foundation (nmmf.org). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Journal
PLOS ONE
Article Title
Sights and sounds dolphins, Tursiops truncatus preying on native fish of San Diego Bay and offshore in the Pacific Ocean
Article Publication Date
17-Aug-2022
COI Statement
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.