Are dolphins on their way to domesticating humans?

Global Animal  “Dolphins Team Up With Fisherman”

Now if only the dolphins can somehow get over that little “needs to breathe air every two minutes” problem with humans through artificial breeding.

Seriously, though, this is really interesting as an analog for the kind of coevolution that probably occurred between humans and wolves. Just as was the case with wolves, it is the preadaptation for intraspecies cooperation (in both dolphins and humans) that makes interspecies cooperation possible here. What’s remarkable is that humans can interact with an animal in an environment that is so foreign to human biological adaptations.

Also fascinating is the tool use and cultural evolution this article describes in dolphins.