Well, it turns out that dolphins are even smarter than previously thought because they can in fact learn and/or teach this trick to other dolphins. According to Sea World trainers, other dolphins who could not blow bubbles have learned how to do it by watching the dolphins who could.
That’s pretty darn great. Watch the video above to see clip after clip of dolphins blowing bubbles. Man, when was the last time I was at Sea World? Like…before I was a teen I think. Geez.
In this video from Japan, a diver/trainer blows some air into the mouth of one beluga whale and watches as the same whale blows ring bubbles out of its mouth! Keep watching the video if you also want to see the whales dribbling a ball with their mouth underwater and doing somersaults. [via]
Why are dolphins considered one of the smartest animals in the sea? Well, this video may explain that answer to some degree.
Here, we can see dolphins playing in the water with bubble rings that they have somehow learned to do on their own!
According to Project Delphis, the dolphins create these bubble rings in the water “by injecting air into water vortices, about the thickness of a straw and 1 to 2 feet in diameter. The rings don’t rise to the surface! The babies play with these underwater toys by moving them around with their rostrum, or biting them. They even bounce the rings off the wall, and elongate them with a flick of their dorsal fins into 15 foot corkscrews.”
That’s just amazing. You have to watch the video above to see it in action!
