Comments on: Dolphins Protect Themselves With Sponges To Seek Out Bottom-Dwelling Fish http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/07/21/dolphins-protect-themselves-with-sponges-to-seek-out-bottom-dwelling-fish/ Mon, 22 Apr 2013 21:34:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Bianca Dragusanu http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/07/21/dolphins-protect-themselves-with-sponges-to-seek-out-bottom-dwelling-fish/#comment-28580 Bianca Dragusanu Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:31:44 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=30576#comment-28580 Dolphins are indeed amazing. I also heard they are the only creatures besides humans who have sex for pleasure and not just reproduction. Dolphins are indeed amazing. I also heard they are the only creatures besides humans who have sex for pleasure and not just reproduction.

]]> By: Kristine Steinhaus http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/07/21/dolphins-protect-themselves-with-sponges-to-seek-out-bottom-dwelling-fish/#comment-28579 Kristine Steinhaus Tue, 23 Aug 2011 20:08:27 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=30576#comment-28579 Dolphins are amazing. What we can learn about us from studying them: We are slow learners. Dolphins are amazing. What we can learn about us from studying them: We are slow learners.

]]> By: Torbjörn Larsson, OM http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/07/21/dolphins-protect-themselves-with-sponges-to-seek-out-bottom-dwelling-fish/#comment-28578 Torbjörn Larsson, OM Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:07:22 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/?p=30576#comment-28578 *That* is sharp thinking! No really, I don't know of any other tool users (besides us, natch) that does it to minimize hurt. (Though you can probably make a good case for chimps using sticks to pick ants without coming too close to the anthill.) *That* is sharp thinking!

No really, I don’t know of any other tool users (besides us, natch) that does it to minimize hurt. (Though you can probably make a good case for chimps using sticks to pick ants without coming too close to the anthill.)

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