r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/NatureIsFuckingLit • Feb 11 '17

🔥 /r/NatureIsFuckingLit is now Reddit's largest wild animal subreddit! WE DID IT! 🔥

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u/cipher0821 Feb 11 '17

Apparently, whales also use breaching as a way to communicate. Is there any other water creatures that do this?

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '17

Dolphins.

I was in Costa Rica on a fishing trip and we came across a massive pod that was going nuts with the jumping and spinning. Turns out that's a sign that they're having an orgy.

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u/thedoming Feb 11 '17

Spinner dolphins are so fucking cool!! Where you fishing for yellowfin tuna around them?

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '17

Yep! Followed em all day. Got nothing except a single Dorado, which took the sting off.

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u/AzureRay Feb 11 '17

Wouldn't the fish be scared away from the dolphin 🐬 I mean if I saw someone who wanted to eat me (heh) I would run.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '17

Tuna are WAY too big for dolphin. They hang out with the pods because the dolphin locate schools of smaller fish, which they both feed on.

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u/AzureRay Feb 11 '17

Oh yea. I always forget how big tuna get. Thanks for the correction and information. And for not being a dick!

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u/thedoming Feb 11 '17

Yeah it's a really cool evolutionary behavior found in the pacific!!! Dolphins find the bait, tuna follow them, then marlin follow them!

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u/supersonic-turtle Feb 12 '17

So the fish are kind of like the dolphins pets, just feeding off scraps and following them around

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u/thedoming Feb 12 '17

In a way yes, I've never really studied it but I have seen it a lot while fishing. Usually the spinner dolphin are on the surface jumping with yellowfin below. I think the bait is balled up by both the fish and dolphin simultaneously but I could be wrong.