Hundreds of ocean predators take advantage of a natural tendency of swarms to coalesce and to behave as a large synchronized group despite a lack of higher ordered thought or direction. Steven Strogatz gave a beautiful presentation about this natural patterning in fireflies, swallows, and so many schools of fish, particularly as they evade predators. [...]
Wild bottlenose dolphins, given their widespread distribution across several ocean systems, display a wide variety of peculiar behaviors including carrying objects. The question has remained, are these objects play things or is this carrying behavior an adaptive one that helps bottlenose survive?
For a subset of the bottlenose population in Shark Bay, Australia, sponge-carrying (or sponger) [...]
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