Lady Elliot Island

[laughs]

... was first reported engaging in the behavior in 2017 near Lady Elliot Island in the southern Great Barrier Reef.

Researchers have now documented repeated instances of the animal forcing bigeye trevally fish to throw up their recently consumed food.

The findings, published this month in the journal Ecology and Evolution, provide one of the first well-documented examples of food stealing, known as-

He basically terrorizes other fish until they vomit and then eats whatever the hell comes out of their sick, bile-filled fish mouths.

The male dolphin, nicknamed Bubbles, has repeatedly been observed harassing bigeye trevally, I don't even know what the fuck that is, near Lady Elliot Island, selecting individual fish and chasing them until they regurgitate their recently eaten meals.

Bubbles then swoops in and eats all the vomit.

It's like, how did he learn that trick? It is a very specific method.

One animal steals food another animal has already caught or collected.

In Bubbles' case however, getting the stolen goods requires a little bit of coercion.

Researchers studying the waters around Lady Elliot Island documented 20 encounters involving the dolphin between 2021 and 2025.

During 11 of those encounters, they watched Bubbles successfully chase a bigeye trevally.

This is quite disgusting.

We have Bubbles the Bottlenose Dolphin living off the coast of Lady Elliot Island.

Mm-hmm.

So this is a Queensland story.

This research could lead them there.

They were on Lady Elliot Island in the Great Barrier Reef.

And this is between 2021 and 2025.

And again, like my first story, these are opportunistic sort of observations.

Happy anniversary.

I apologise to Lady Elliot.

I've completely buggered that up entirely.

I do apologise.

All right.

He's up late.

Apologies again, Lady Elliot.

Coming up tonight, go for gold and get a rainbow tick.