Dolphins use coral reef to treat skin conditions, study suggests
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While the medicinal affects of coral on humans are being studied researchers observing the dolphins believe it could be used to help fight cancer, arthritis, bacterial infections, viruses, and other diseases.
Co-lead author Angela Ziltener, who is also a wildlife biologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland, said in a news release that she noticed that dolphins in the Northern Red Sea off the coast of Egypt were selective about which corals they rubbed against.
"I hadn’t seen this coral rubbing behavior described before, and it was clear that the dolphins knew exactly which coral they wanted to use," Ziltener said in the release and added, "I thought, ‘There must be a reason."
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