Unlike sponging, however, in which dolphins use sponges to find fishes hiding in mud, conching isn't yet widespread in Shark Bay.

然而，与海豚利用海绵捕捉藏在泥中鱼类的海绵捕食法不用，海螺捕食法在鲨鱼湾分布并不广泛。

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If, as with sponging, conching is taught primarily by females to other females, then conching was likely an invention of single mothers trying to feed their families.

如果像海绵捕食法那样，海螺捕食法也是主要由雌性海豚传授雌性海豚，那么海螺捕食法有可能是单身母亲在尝试养家糊口时的发明。

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Also unknown is how conching emerged: as a variation on sponging, perhaps, or in flashes of insight from creatures whose intelligence may rival our own but happen to lack fingers and hands.

同样不清楚的是海螺捕食法是如何出现的：或许是海绵捕食法的一个变化，又或者是有一种智慧可以与我们自己匹敌，可是缺少手指和手的生物，灵光一闪而出现的。

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Also unknown is how conching emerged: as a variation on sponging, perhaps, or in flashes of insight from creatures whose intelligence may rival our own but happen to lack fingers and hands.

同样不清楚的是海螺捕食法是如何出现的：或许是海绵捕食法的一个变化，又或者是有一种智慧可以与我们自己匹敌，可是缺少手指和手的生物，灵光一闪而出现的。

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