The influence of dolphin group coordination on cooperative foraging with humans.

ABSTRACT: Social foraging is a collective solution to the challenge of catching prey. A remarkable example involving different predator species with complementary hunting skills is Lahille's bottlenose dolphins, Tursiops truncatus gephyreus foraging with net-casting human fishers to catch migratory mullet, Mugil liza. It remains unknown, however, to what extent dolphins coordinate their own actions when foraging with humans, and how intraspecific coordination impacts interspecific foraging success. Using drone-based tracking, we quantified dolphin group surfacing behaviors (diving synchrony, proximity, and heading angles between individuals) and tested the repeatability of these behavioral metrics across independent human-dolphin cooperative foraging interactions. We then quantified ho

SUBMITTER: McGarvey K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12742386 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature