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Atlantic bottlenose dolphins feed on fish they corralled onto the beach during stand feeding at Captain Sam's Inlet September 3, 2014 in Kiawah Island, SC. This unusual practice involves a group of dolphins herding a school of fish onto the beach and then launching their bodies out of the water and onto the shore to feed and is only found in a few places on earth.

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Atlantic bottlenose dolphins feed on fish they corralled onto the beach during stand feeding at Captain Sam's Inlet September 3, 2014 in Kiawah Island, SC. This unusual practice involves a group of dolphins herding a school of fish onto the beach and then launching their bodies out of the water and onto the shore to feed and is only found in a few places on earth.