Ann-Christine chose Chaos as the word challenge this week. Choas in some form seems to be most everywhere. On Kiawah Island, there is a pod of Bottlenose Dolphins who learned to feed in a chaotic manner called strand feeding. This taught behavior is only seen in a few parts of the in the world. You can see from the pictures below how chaotic strand feeding is!
The first part of the feeding routine looks more organized. Working together, they locate a school of fish and begin herding them towards the shore as shown below.
Once the fish are boxed in with no escape route, the dolphins attack by herding them on the bank and then gobbling up as many as possible. The scene quickly becomes a feeding frenzy!
As mentioned, these dolphins are part of a large pod of Bottlenose Dolphins who live year round in the Kiawah River, by Kiawah Island, South Carolina. This same pod was also featured in a previous posts entitled, ACTION, dated September 15.2018. Plus the Smug Mug link on my site shows additional pictures.
To read documented articles about strand feeding behavior and view incredible images, search “Kiawah Island Bottle-Nose Dolphins” or “Dolphin Strand Feeding in South Carolina” on the internet. With so much information being available it is difficult share only one or two links.
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