Study Suggests Dolphins Use Coral Mucus as Medicine

^Proof dolphins are smarter than people

And dolphins use puffer fish toxin to get high. Dolphins are highly intelligent
and learn from other dolphins.

Dogs eat grass to induce vomiting, cats do too.

Nice they added the climate change aspect to this story.Not sure how we're going to survive if they ever stop beating us with it.

Amazing


Animals are smarter than humans.

I wish climate change would only kill off the idiots that are spewing that crap. You know, the rich ones that fly around in private jets? Life would be a whole lot calmer, and our children could just be kids, and not something on their menu.

up next...

Dolphin Pox

tl;dr

My holistic doc told me coral calcium can't be absorbed well by the body and is therefore a waste of money.

such dolphining

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What if they are just scratching an itch?

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OP: your video is pure shit! It's not a video, it's a photo-montage. What is this, 1995!? ANYONE can type any FAKE STORY and add it to a couple pix.

PROVES NOTHING.

Idiot couldn't even be bothered to photoshop the pix to make it go with the fake story he concocted. Or maybe the story might be true but his is a fake vid!

PS: THEY DO create tons of fake animal videos on YT. Mostly it's the DODO, a notorious scam of a channel (Yes, the very one which landed a TV show!!) which often uses animal abuse videos, pasting a fake story and passing it as animal rescue.

The Dodo routinely uses photo-montages in lieu of videos (in 2020 and beyond? COME ON, MAN!) and pastes fake voice over, reads fake stories or pastes words on the screen for a fake story.

They have been called out (by yours truly and others who caught on) for the story of one dog and using multiple dogs of different breeds. First frame: this poor dog had mange and was skinny. Shows a pug. End frame after 14 min of fucked up made up stories: now he's grown hair. Yeah and a snout, considering the dog is now a Malamute!



The DODO is FAKE AS FUCK!

That's where i quit reading.

Too bad for me it was at the end.

I sprayed my sons dog with the hose the other day.. he loves it... and he went round and round a rough flower pot, scratching his bod, both ways so he got both sides.


Animals are smart, dolphins especially so.

You said it dude. Some ape out there doesnt like being told he isnt the only smart animal on this rock.

Study Suggests Dolphins Use Coral Mucus as Medicine

Chimpanzees have learned to eat plants that kill or remove parasitic worms. Wood ants ward off pathogens by incorporating resin into their nests. Various bird species in Mexico City integrate cigarette butts into their nests to prevent tick infestations. Capuchin monkeys bite millipedes and rub the toxins they produce into their fur, keeping mosquitoes away. The animal kingdom is full of examples of animals that know, either innately or as a result of watching their parents or peers, to use plants and other animals for medicinal purposes. Dolphins may be another such example, according to research published today (May 19) in iScience.

Ziltener teamed up with colleagues to conduct a detailed chemical analysis of the bioactive compounds secreted by gorgonian coral (Rumphella aggregate), leather coral (Sarcophyton sp.), and sponges (Ircinia sp.), three invertebrates against which the dolphins selectively rub their bellies, fins, and faces. For that part of the study, study coauthor Gertrud Morlock, an analytical chemist and food scientist at Justus-Liebig University Giessen in Germany, made the most of the one-centimeter cuttings of the coral and sponge that the team was allowed to take—and felt comfortable taking—from the reef. To do so, Morlock conducted planar separation chromatography, a technique that breaks a compound and individually tests its active ingredients, which allowed the team to conduct multiple analyses on the properties of each of their limited samples.

“We wanted to have a wide view on the effects” of the bioactive compounds, Morlock tells The Scientist. “We used ten different assays.”

The team found 17 different metabolites in the samples, which they say would be secreted in the invertebrates’ mucus. Some were previously known, providing proof-of-concept validation for their technique, Morlok says; others were new to science. Samples from all three species contained antibacterial compounds, while leather coral also included some hormones.

Ziltener tells The Scientist that they don’t have any evidence that these compounds actually help the dolphins as either a remedy or a prophylactic, however, which is why the study can’t definitively claim that the animals are self-medicating. And taking skin samples from the dolphins to find the answer isn’t feasible under the regulations protecting the dolphins—and might result in Ziltener’s rejection from the pod.


Animal self-medication experts who spoke to The Scientist about the new study agree with Ziltener that the research falls short of conclusive proof of self-medication. Jaap de Roode, an Emory University biologist currently writing a book on animal self-medication, notes that the paper doesn’t show that the dolphins actually receive a medical benefit from the coral. Still, he says that he “wouldn’t be surprised at all” if that were the case. “It’s certainly plausible.” He adds that some of the antibacterial compounds identified could, theoretically, be explored for potential clinical use.
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Perhaps the Dolphins are smart enough to know that coral reefs are in danger from bleaching and are attempting to cool them by brushing and stimulating.

??? -kidding.

Here's what coral bleaching is. Many reefs are or have been affected.

"Warmer water temperatures can result in coral bleaching. When water is too warm, corals will expel the algae (zooxanthellae) living in their tissues causing the coral to turn completely white. This is called coral bleaching. When a coral bleaches, it is not dead. Corals can survive a bleaching event, but they are under more stress and are subject to mortality."
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*everybody can decide for themselves in this 3rd decade of the 21st century if they can see and/or have experienced a warming or cooling planet. Seems many predicted or latched onto the predictions made 2.5 years ago that a global cooling was coming based on solar cycle 25 becoming weak - in some cases the prediction was Maunder Minimum weak. Doesn't look like that has happened based on all the solar flare/cme threads posted of late. No, solar cycle 25 is quite active.

Last Edited by Humanitarianlike on 06/15/2022 04:17 PM