🐬 Dolphin Sponge Tool: Cultural Foraging Ecology (2D)
2D top-down agent model of Shark Bay sponging: sponge-equipped vs. bare-rostrum dolphins probing sand and rubble seafloor, real success-rate and energy-per-time divergence between the two strategies, and a juvenile that can learn sponge tool-use from its mother.
This 2D companion turns the 3D Dolphin Sponge Tool scene into a behavioral-ecology lab: a top-down seafloor grid of smooth sand and rocky rubble, a background Monte-Carlo population that compares real foraging success rates and net energy-gain-per-time between sponge-equipped and bare-rostrum strategies, and a visible mother-and-juvenile pair whose cultural transmission of sponge tool-use — the real matrilineal "sponging" tradition documented in Shark Bay, Australia — you can watch unfold as sliders for rubble density, sponge-use rate and learning probability change the outcome.
2D top-down agent model of Shark Bay sponging: sponge-equipped vs. bare-rostrum dolphins probing sand and rubble seafloor, with real success-rate and energy-per-time divergence and a mother-to-juvenile cultural-learning mechanic.
2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install