Daily Mail published this video item, entitled “Dolphins seen forming a queue to use corals as medicines” – below is their description.
The dolphins are selective about seeking out a particular type of coral which has medicinal properties in the mucus it releases, according to the study. Co-lead author Angela Ziltener, a wildlife biologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, first observed the dolphins rubbing against coral 13 years ago in the northern Red Sea, off the coast of Egypt. ‘I hadn’t seen this coral rubbing behaviour described before, and it was clear that the dolphins knew exactly which coral they wanted to use,’ she said. ‘I thought, there must be a reason.’
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