Dolphins 'clean squid like chefs'

WILD dolphins have been spotted making elaborate preparations on cuttlefish to make a soft meal of calamari.

A female Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin in Spencer Gulf, South Australia, was repeatedly observed pinning cuttlefish with her snout to kill it, beating it to drain the toxic black ink and stripping out the cuttlebone to soften the flesh.

Writing in science journal PLoS ONE, experts called the feeding behaviour "impressive for a non-primate animal".