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Watch: Sailors spot dolphins feeding on bio-luminescent plankton in the Mediterranean

Dolphins feed on and swim amongst bio-luminescent plankton
Dolphins feed on and swim amongst bio-luminescent plankton
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By Darin Graham
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A pod of dolphins were filmed by sailors in the Mediterranean Sea at night as they fed on bioluminescent plankton

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Rare footage captured the moment dolphins fed on bioluminescent plankton at night in the Mediterranean Sea. 

Sailors were 120 nautical miles off the Gibraltar coast as the dolphins began swimming highlighted by fluorescent light emitted by the plankton.

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