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Thanks Josh,<br> This makes me wonder if the plastic bags I saw draped around Spinner Dolphin ( like a necklace ) in Hawaii two years ago, were objects of play rather than food? Either way, not good. Paul<br><br><hr>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 07:59:53 -0700<br>From: rain@applexpert.com<br>To: Channel_islands_naturalist_corps@rain.org<br>Subject: [CINC] Dolphin bubble rings<br><br>
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<font face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size: 14pt;">After seeing Scott Robertson’s post on this intriguing bit of video, I did a little checking of my own on its veracity. As Scott correctly points out, <a href="http://www.snopes.com" target="_blank">http://www.snopes.com</a> is a very good clearing house for checking into potential urban legends. I did a search of their site and came up with the following:<br>
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<a href="http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/dolphinrings.asp" target="_blank">http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/dolphinrings.asp</a><br>
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It’s exciting to see that this behavior is not only true, but documented in the professional literature:<br>
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<a href="http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/bjmccowan/Pubs/McCowanetal.JCP.2000.pdf" target="_blank">http://faculty.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/faculty/bjmccowan/Pubs/McCowanetal.JCP.2000.pdf</a><br>
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What amazing creatures!<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Josh<br>
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