The dolphins herd the fish toward human fishers who wait by the shore, hip deep in water. Then, at exactly the right moment, the dolphins dive, a signal for the fishers to cast their nets.

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Mauricio Cantor, behavioral ecologist at Oregon State University, about his study on how humans and dolphins work together to fish in a southern Brazilian city.

Humans have worked with other species to find food for millenniums, including honeyguides in southeast Africa and Indigenous American accounts of hunting alongside wolves.And net-casting fishers ...

On their own, it would be tricky to find the silvery fish. But the humans get help from an unusual ally: wild bottlenose dolphins. With nets in hand, ...

About 10 dolphins work with humans out of a group of about 60. The team calculated that dolphins that worked with people were 13 per cent more likely to survive through the study period than ones ...

In Brazil, where humans and dolphins fish in tandem, ... The dolphins can then pull a few fish from the net to eat or more easily prey on the mullet trapped against the outside of the nets.

Dolphins and fishermen who use nets catch more fish when they work together, an international team of researchers have found. This cooperation with fishermen increases dolphins' survival rates by ...