CANBERRA - Scientists reveal the intelligence and social adaptation of the species of bottlenose dolphins in Moreton Bay, Australia. The researchers found that dolphins live in two different groups with the rare interaction.
Reported by the BBC on Monday (7/30/2012), scientists think that the ban on fishing vessels of a certain area in the sea can bring both groups to interact with. They believe these mammals have a social life that are flexible and able to hunt to find new food sources together.
Dolphins are known as Moreton Bay and consists of a single population groups are not mutually "hang out" with each other. With the ban on fishing in certain areas, amounting to 50 percent of fishing effort is reduced and the change is an opportunity for researchers to observe the adaptation of populations of dolphins.
"It's never really any experiments to see the social structure, where you can compare what ever and how (social) dolphins today," said Ina ANSMANN of Quennsland University.
He said the dolphins again set the whole social system of their after seine boats do not approach the dolphin population of the area. So, now they can interact again.
The scientists identified a dolphin in person with a sign on the dorsal fin mammals and animals that interact noted. "Every dolphin has small marks such as cuts and grooves, as well as pieces on the dorsal fin. So they have a dorsal fin that looks unique and different," he concluded.
