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Via [livejournal.com profile] itsallonething: Among Dolphins, Tool-Users Are Women - WSJ.com

This is really cool. A group of wild bottlenose dolphins living in Australia's Shark Bay have been found to use sponges to protect their noses while they dig in the sand hunting for fish. The researchers from Georgetown University who are studying the dolphins believe that this technique may be a recent invention made by a single female dolphin who subsequently taught this to her family. It seems that the female dolphins learn the technique much more easily than the males and that those who do learn the technique use it so frequently that no other species besides humans is believed to have a higher rate of tool use than this group of dolphins.
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