If you ask anyone what a dolphin eats, you’ll probably get the same answer: fish! After all, fish are abundant in all the different waters where dolphins live. However, dolphins are opportunistic ...

Dolphins use strand feeding in just a few places in the world, says Wayne McFee, who heads the Coastal Marine Mammal Assessments Program for NOAA’s National Ocean Service in Charleston.

Dolphins display this feeding strategy in a few places and one of them is the coastal waters of South Carolina. “It’s one of the coolest things I think you can see.” ...

Only a few dolphin groups in the world do what’s called strand feeding, where they strategically work together to herd fish onto the shore, then launch out of the water to catch them. They confuse the ...

The practice of strand feeding is a learned behavior among local dolphin populations, and not all of them know how to do it. During the summer, local waters get a “lot of migratory dolphins.” ...

In this image provided by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, a stranded dolphin is attended to near Skaket Beach, Orleans, Nov. 9, 2024, in Orleans, Mass.

The elements, along with the hook-like shape of the cape itself, make Cape Cod a global hotspot for dolphin mass strandings. Rescuers who helped free more than a hundred dolphins from the ...

Dolphins display this feeding strategy in a few places and one of them is the coastal waters of South Carolina. “It’s one of the coolest things I think you can see.” ...

Strand feeding is an ambush hunting technique where small groups of between two to six dolphins, will herd groups of bait fish such as mullet tightly together into a “bait ball.” They will ...