Dolphins blowing bubbles

I don't know who wrote this but it is a very good explanation of how the dolphins can make air-core vortex rings. This is so amazing so please enjoy!

The attached video is of dolphins playing with silver colored rings which they have the ability to make under water to play with. It isn't known how they learn this, or if it's an inbred ability.

As if by magic the dolphin dose a quick flip of it's head and a silver ring appears in front of it's pointed beak. The ring is a solid, donut shaped bubble about 2-ft across, yet is doesn't rise to the surface of the water! It stands upright in the water like a magic doorway to an unseen dimension. The dolphin then pulls a small silver donut from the larger one. Looking at the twisting ring for one last time a bite is taken from it, causing the small ring to collapse into a thousands of tiny bubbles which head upward towards the water's surface. After a few moments the dolphins creates another ring to play with. There also seems to be a separate mechanism for producing small rings which a dolphin can accomplish by a quick flip of it's head.

An explanation of how dolphins make these silver rings is that they are "air-core vortex rings". Invisible, spinning vortex in the water are generated form the tip of a dolphin's dorsal fin when it is moving rapidly and truing. When dolphins break the line, the ends are drawn together into a closed ring. The higher velocity fluid around the core of the vortex it at a lower pressure than the fluid circulating farther away. Air is injected into the rings via bubbles released from the dolphin's blowhole. The energy of the water vortex is enough to keep the bubbles form rising for a reasonably few seconds of play time.