You will never be hungry with dolphins around

Dolphins in a popular Australian resort have been spotted giving presents to human visitors.

Researchers revealed the astonishing find in a new research paper analysing the animals at the Tangalooma Island Resort in Australia, Daily Mail reports.

On 23 occasions over the past several years, wild dolphins were observed giving gifts to humans, including eels, tuna, squid, and even an octopus.

Dolphins of a wide group of ages and both sexes engaged in the gift-giving behavior, and scientists are not entirely sure of what is motivating their behavior.

Food sharing in animals is often motivated by an urge to play, a desire to reciprocate food sharing or the belief that the recipient of the food is an incompetent hunter, they claim.

Based on their detailed observations, the scientists think that gift giving among the wild dolphins at the Tangalooma Island Resort was likely a form of play behavior.

- It is most likely a manifestation of the particular relationship between the provisioned dolphins and the human participants in the provisioning - the scientists said.