Dolphins may make friends during large feasts, a new study has found.Just as humans are well known for gathering and socializing over a meal, scientists at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland found that bottlenose dolphins appear to do the same.'The behaviors we observed were simply dolphins appearing in groups together,' Dr. David Fisher, who led the research, told Newsweek.
The researchers theorized that the available food source reduced the dolphins' competition with one another, allowing them more room to engage and socialize with one another.Scientists already know that dolphins are highly social animals with complex social structures, so it is not surprising that they seem keen to interact with each other—but learning how factors such as food influence this social behavior is.Dr.
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