This is a pretty amazing video! You can't deny that these are very smart creatures.
I found this scientific article about this behavior (the first article on the page, it's a PDF, not a website, but click on the ucdavis.edu link to download). The dolphins make the bubbles and can apparently judge whether their first bubble is "good" quality or not. If it is, they'll play with it and make a second, smaller bubble out of the first. If it's a "poor" bubble, they'll ignore it and swim away. Babies will watch their mothers make bubble rings and try it for themselves. Then their mothers will give them feedback by echolocation, and make more bubble rings of their own to show the babies how it's done.
Pretty cool.
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This is beautiful AND amazing! I loved seeing the dolphin try to swim through his own bubble creation. They definitely have instincts for pleasure and not solely for survival, don't they. Wow.
So cool!
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