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Researchers investigated the cooperative abilities of dolphins. Utilizing a simplified Hirata Task, the team found that dolphins coordinated their behavior to work together on a shared task. Specifically, the ‘initiator’ would wait on their partner and the ‘follower’ would coordinate their swimming speed to match the initiator’s behavior.