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The US Navy Put Cameras on Dolphins and the Results Were Wild

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Lots of interesting stuff here!

But I was surprised by this:

> While these dolphins aren't wild, they are provided with regular opportunities to hunt in the open ocean, complementing their usual diet of frozen fish... "They can swim away if they choose, and over the years a few have. But almost all stay."

I wonder if some of the ones that don't stay in San Diego go stay with unfriendly regimes who A/B test their designs with them.

> "They can swim away if they choose, and over the years a few have. But almost all stay."

I wonder if they're gonna start a recruitment program so the dolphins can recruit their open-sea bros into the program. "Hey man, want a free GoPro and unlimited fish for life?"

Explain ‘advertising revenues’ to them and ruin dolphin culture forever. :P

Just don't tell them about crypto. We don't need them on their sigma grind.

Next we'll need dolphin unions. This is actually the sub-plot of the John Scalzi novel "Starter Villain".

Basically just wet, smart cats then

One day one of these dolphins will point his camera at a sign spelled out with seaweed: "So long, and thanks for all the fish."

They should upload the footage to YouTube because Why Not?

For real, these guys are cool. Maybe they're exhibiting some searching behavior while out in the wild we don't want the Russians training their dolphins with.

There's a YouTube video in the linked article, isn't that some of the footage?

It'a only a few minutes.

It is some, but it cuts short without anything interesting happening. I was hoping for more.

The results might be “wild”, but the dolphins weren’t.

From TFA: ”While these dolphins aren't wild…”

One time I was boating on the San Diego Bay and a friendly dolphin was swimming nearby. I knew about the pens and thought it was really strange a wild dolphin would swim into the bay. He must have been one of the Navy's going to try a snack!

Dolphins swimming into bays is actually somewhat common. If you spend a few hours every day on the water, you’re likely to see a few dolphins every year.

Or, it might be a harbour porpoise - I saw them all the time in SF bay from the ferry when I was commuting on it.

That’s all well and good but I want to hear what happened when they placed lasers on those dolphins.

It's the sharks that have the lasers

Oh, sure, like dolphins can’t be patriots too

Dolphins are trained for command and specialist roles; they aren't mere laser-wielding grunts like sharks.

I hate it when some nerd on HN snipes me on aquatic animal military roles

You just have to drug them first.

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Duh, how do think I’m so successful romantically? Syrettes in the dashboard at all times.

If you put lasers on them do they become killer whales?

Surely frikin lasers?

I don't think there's a black-or-white answer to that.

Paper -

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

The navy also trains dolphins to find bombs and detonate them.

How, how do you have a science article about putting cameras on dolphins and only upload an 18s clip to YouTube?! What is the point?

Seriously, where is the video?

The dolphins retained copyright?

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