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How a Bottlenose Dolphin Butchers a Cuttlefish

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Images by Julian Finn et al, from New Scientist

Who needs knives or cleavers when you can butcher with your snout? Researchers in Australia have observed a bottlenose dolphin kill, cut, and bone a cuttlefish by using its nose to pin the cuttlefish to the ground, shake it to release its ink, and then drag it along the rough sea floor to break its bone. [via kottke.org]

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