A wild dolphin approached a fisherman while offering a sea cucumber — something it clearly valued — as if trading it for help freeing its entangled mate. The dolphin didn't just act emotionally; it appeared to understand leverage, value, and how to enlist a human to solve a problem it couldn't solve alone. It is one of the clearest documented examples of transactional thinking in a non-human animal.
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