Marmaris, Turkey (CNN) -- For more than a year, experts have
been at work in a quiet cove on the Aegean Sea, teaching a pair
of male bottlenose dolphins how to catch their own food. Every
day, the team releases dozens of live fish into giant sea pen
where the dolphins named Tom and Misha live. The two males then
race around the pen, diving, darting and somersaulting down to
depths of 45 feet in pursuit of their frightened prey. Like a
proud father, trainer Jeff Foster watches from the narrow dock
that encircles the pen. Not long ago, he said, Tom and Misha had
no idea what to do with live fish. "We had literally thousands
of fish in the pen, and they just wouldn't look at them," Foster
said. "They had just been so used to being hand-fed in a captive
situation that they did not recognize fish as a food source."
When Foster first met the dolphins more than a year ago, he said
they would only eat if humans placed dead fish directly in their
mouths. If fish was thrown into the pen, it would go untouched
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