{"id":392174,"date":"2026-04-14T21:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/392174\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T21:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:02:10","slug":"these-dolphins-hydroplane-over-the-sand-to-catch-fish-in-the-shallows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/392174\/","title":{"rendered":"These Dolphins Hydroplane Over the Sand to Catch Fish in the Shallows"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dolphins<\/p>\n

You\u2019re not you when you\u2019re hungry. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

Dolphins are just the best, aren\u2019t they? There aren\u2019t many things better than bobbing around waiting for a wave and watching a few of them doing their thing. They\u2019re incredibly smart animals \u2014 some of the smartest in the world \u2014 and they use all sorts of interesting hunting techniques. None, however, more interesting than the method that BBC Earth captured in Western Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Dolphins have been known to use tools<\/a>. They can make a sort of net from mud to round up prey. They routinely work together to form bait balls, which makes hunting a whole lot easier.<\/p>\n

In the footage you see here, dolphins\u2019 attempts to feed on fish are thwarted by the fish simply heading to the shallows. After the dolphins try a variety of other methods, like tail slapping, they finally resort to more aggressive measures: hydroplaning.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fish are tantalizingly close,\u201d David Attenborough narrates.<\/a> \u201cBut they\u2019re still out of reach, so the dolphins try another technique. Vigorously pumping their tails, they work up some speed. And then, they hydroplane. Their momentum carries them right through the shallowest waters and onto the fish.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s a roll of the dice because if they miscalculate, they could end up stranding themselves. That\u2019s an awful predicament for a dolphin, but nature doesn\u2019t care much for predicaments. The dolphins need food, and they will do anything to get it. Luckily, as the old saying goes, and Attenborough attests, \u201cFortune favors the brave.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You\u2019re not you when you\u2019re hungry. Photo: YouTube\/\/Screenshot Dolphins are just the best, aren\u2019t they? There aren\u2019t many…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[186666,186667,25460,85,46,141],"class_list":{"0":"post-392174","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-bbc-earth","9":"tag-dolphin-hunting-techniques","10":"tag-dolphins","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}