A dolphin named Bubbles makes other fish vomit, then eats it

Flipper would never A dolphin named Bubbles makes other fish vomit, then eats it “Dolphins are predators and actively hunt their prey, whether it’s been stolen from another species or not.”

60 Credit: Tracy Olive Credit: Tracy Olive Text settings Story text Size Small Standard Large Width * Standard Wide Links Standard Orange * Subscribers only Learn more Minimize to nav Staff at the Lady Elliott Island Eco Resort off the southern Great Barrier Reef in Australia are well acquainted with the shenanigans of a male bottlenose dolphin they’ve nicknamed Bubbles. Bubbles has been around since at least 2017 and regularly harasses local bigeye trevally , chasing a fish around and stressing it so much that the fish throws up what it has consumed. Bubbles then devours the regurgitated food. The dolphin’s unusual behavior is the focus of a new paper published in the journal Ecology and Evolution.