A dolphin named Kelly at the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Gulfport, Mississippi, developed a sophisticated method for exploiting a fish-for-trash training system. Kelly learned to tear paper into small pieces to exchange for multiple fish, demonstrating self-control and forward-planning cognition. She further innovated by using banked fish to bait and catch birds, a behavior that then spread through social learning to other dolphins in her tank, indicating a form of cultural transmission. AI
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- Gulfport
- Institute for Marine Mammal Studies
- Kelly
- Mississippi
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
- Shark Bay, Australia
- Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Cognitive Science
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