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(One study involved killer whales at Marineland in Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada. An inventive male devised a brand new way to catch birds, and passed the strategy on to his tank-mates. The 4-year-old orca lures gulls into his tank by spitting regurgitated fish onto the water`s surface. He waits below for a gull to grab the fish, then lunges at it with open jaws.) They are in a way setting a trap, ... They catch three or four gulls this way some days.

- Michael Noonan

(One study involved killer whales at Marineland in Niagara Falls in Ontario, Canada. An inventive male devised a brand new way to catch birds, and passed the strategy on to his tank-mates. The 4-year-old orca lures gulls into his tank by spitting regurgitated fish onto the water`s surface. He waits below for a gull to grab the fish, then lunges at it with open jaws.) They are in a way setting a trap, ... They catch three or four gulls this way some days.

- Michael Noonan

Both whales were pretty good at it. They caught a sea gull once every 20 days or so.

- Michael Noonan

The whale spit fish at the surface of the pool and then sank below and waited. The gull came down to get the fish, and the whale grabbed it.

- Michael Noonan

In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.

- Giacomo Casanova