One Smart Whale

London Free Press: News Section - Gulls prove gullible to smart whale: "A clever killer whale at Marineland in Niagara Falls has figured out how to use fish as bait to catch seagulls and shared his strategy with his tank-mates."

The young whale that came up with this would spit regugitated fish onto the water's surface and then sink below the surface and wait to see if a gullible seagull landed for a free meal - if one did the whale would surge up through the water to make the seagull the free meal. Sometimes the birds would escape other times they'd become the meal.

How great is that, you can't keep them from their natural instinct in captivity... they'll figure a way out!

Gary Schmidt