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From meerkat school to whale-tail slapping and oyster smashing, how clever predators shape their world

  • Written by Eamonn Wooster, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Gulbali Institute, Charles Sturt University
From meerkat school to whale-tail slapping and oyster smashing, how clever predators shape their worldTswains, Shutterstock

In the 1980s a single humpback whale in the Gulf of Maine developed the “lobtail feeding method”. This unique hunting method of slapping the water’s surface appears to drive fish into dense schools, making it easier to consume them. Lobtail feeding caught on. Now many humpback whales are doing it.

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