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Bang, you're dead

By Eugenie Samuel

3 February 2001

THOSE friendly clicks dolphins make could actually be weapons in an
impressive hunting arsenal, say American researchers.

The theory that dolphins stun their prey with sound has been around for
almost twenty years, but no one had ever seen them do it, or even shown that the
type of sounds dolphins make can stun or kill fish.

Now Ken Marten of Earthtrust in Hawaii and Denise Herzing from Florida
Atlantic University say they have hard evidence on videotape. “It’s the first
time anyone’s got shots like this,” Marten says.

Most data in the field comes from researchers on boats recording…

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