A dolphin's GoPro video shows it eating 8 venomous sea snakes, and scientists aren't sure why

A dolphin with a camera attached to the left side of her harness for the study.US Navy/National Marine Mammal FoundationA Navy-trained bottlenose dolphin devoured eight venomous sea snakes one day, GoPro videos show.Dolphins have never been documented eating sea snakes, only playing with them.The attacks puzzled scientists, since consuming venomous snakes can be dangerous.A Navy-trained dolphin hunted and devoured eight venomous sea snakes in a single day, the first time scientists have documented such behavior.Researchers at the National Marine Mammal Foundation in San Diego, California, strapped GoPro cameras to a pair of bottlenose dolphins, which the US Navy has trained to locate mines with their sonar calls. The dolphins were off the job for their video project. The scientists wanted to see them do what they do best: hunt fish.One of the dolphins, though, opted for a more unorthodox meal. Cameras recorded her eating eight yellow-bellied sea snakes one day. Prior to this study, which was published in the journal PLOS ONE on Wednesday, there was no documentation of dolphins eating sea snakes — only playing with them and releasing them. Ingesting venomous snakes can be dangerous.In one video, below, the dolphin catches a snake and swims around with it…
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