……..not unreasonable but also untrue. good guess. though i do not know how one would get the impression that the only reason myself and laserbeak “get along” is our similar perception of the physical space around us
Anon’s inference: Dadwave is a dolphin, perhaps bat
the true face of soundwave
delete this image immediately. earth organic species ‘dolphins’ are horrible demons and i will NOT be associated with them
I saw someone claim, “There’s no evidence that swim with dolphin programs and closed-system habitats are detrimental to the animals.”
This, of course, referring to the various “Dolphin Encounter” programs offered by marine parks, and the state of the enclosures that cetaceans are currently house in.
First, let’s briefly tackle how Dolphin Encounter programs work. You shell out a bit of extra money plus the cost of your day ticket to feed and/or swim* with the dolphins. The less expensive feeding option gives you a tray of fish to give to the dolphins.
*Depending on the facility, there is little to no actual swimming with the dolphins. You will get in the water with them in a wetsuit on an underwater platform and the trainer accompanying your group will go through a set routine and allow each of the guests to feed, touch, and possibly get towed by the dolphin. A photographer employed by the park is sometimes present to take pictures of the guests.
What are the risks? Aside from being stressful and dangerous for the dolphins, there are health and safety risks for the guests involved. Zoonotic diseases such as tuberculosis and pneumonia can be passed between people and dolphins, and the water that the dolphins live in also happens to be the same water that the dolphins excrete (eg. poop and pee) in. Ingesting any amount of the dolphin water could lead to infection, such as MRSA or bacillary dysentery.
Aside from the risks to your health, there are the risks of injury. One of the more well-known cases of a park guest experiencing dolphin-inflicted injury is the young girl that got bitten by a dolphin at SeaWorld’s Dolphin Cove.
The conclusion that most people came to in this case was that the dolphin got excited at the sight of the tray (which I believe you are supposed to keep out of the dolphin’s view, hence the angled border of the pool) and subsequently lunged for it and caught the girl’s arm in the process.
In this video, a dolphin lunges in frustration after being repeatedly teased by the guest holding the fish just out of reach, in order to pose for a picture.
This video shows Silvana Straccia, a swimming with dolphins at Bavaro Beach in Punta Cana. Starting around 2:20 in the video, one dolphin appears to strike Straccia in the face with it’s tail, and another rams her. She explains in the video description: “
while the first one throws me water in the eyes, the other one comes behind and hits my chest, and sank me under the water.
“ She was in the hospital for 8 weeks for broken cartilage, and claims that she was made to sign a form saying that any accidents to happen were not the fault of the park: “
They do the same routine every 20 mins surrounded by strangers, with
noise, and orders.. non stop!!.. I was told that if he had hitted me
with the nose I would not be alive.. so i was quite lucky in the end.
Poor them.. who is the silly one??.. Us.. I will never do it again, and
not for the hit. Nobody should and their business would be ended. THey
earn a fortune with no responsabilities, as they made me sign a paper
before entering, not being responsible for any ACCIDENTS! so you cant
claim…
“
A dolphin swim experience in Miami. A dolphin charges at the man shown in the video and bites his forearm. It stops underwater in front of him, then heads back to the direction it came from, and appears to strike him with it’s tail flukes. The man floats on his belly and says “He bit me.” From the video description: “Dolphin attacks my son while on summer holiday in Miami. South African
family. Just come across this video from our holiday in Miami, Florida,
and it made me feel sick as the day it happened and decided to post it
onto Youtube, so you can see the ugly side of swimming with dolphins,
don’t think it’s all fun. Be careful and remember, it’s a business
they’re running.
“
Another incident that I have to link because tumblr doesn’t want me to embed more than 5 videos: “Dolphins attack Josie” – 2 dolphins bite a woman during a “swim-with” session.
Captive cetaceans aside, wild cetaceans acting aggressively towards humans is not entirely unheard of.In fact, in many areas, entering the water with and/or touching wild cetaceans is illegaldue to the risks to both human and animal.
“Dusty” the dolphin was a local celebrity of sorts in Doolin, Ireland. Here he is displaying quite aggressive body language via tail-slapping several times before ramming the woman in the water. From the video description, “The dolphin is believed to have struck the woman in the kidney area with
its nose, leaving her winded and shouting to be rescued.”
“Pilot Whale Attack – original version” – A man and woman jump into the water with wild pilot whales, even touching one. One of the whales grabs the woman by the leg a drags her under. They were fined $10,000, but battled it for 3 years and the claim was dismissed.
You can point your finger at the people getting hurt by wild dolphins and say “Of course they got hurt, they shouldn’t have been in the water!” What does that say about marine park’s swim-with programs? “Of course the wild dolphins attacked, they aren’t used to people!” Then how do you explain the captive dolphins also lashing out at park guests? It’s well-documented that wild dolphins will harass swimmers, and yet marine parks continue to introduce the circumstances that allow these incidents to happen.
Dolphins are if humans were wet tubes with no morals
A Dolphin was trained to save drowning people in exchange for fish!
[later]
We regret to inform you that the life saver dolphin has now drowned 40 people
That’s the dolphin who, upon being taught that giving her trainers found trash would get her a treat, stashed a huge piece of trash and gave them tiny bits at a time to get a treat for each one.
Dolphins are alarmingly smart. I can 100% guarantee that teaching a dolphin to save drowning people would result in that dolphin putting people in intentional danger in order to ‘save’ them.
I once read about an aquarium that trained the dolphins to pick up any debris in the tank and give it to the trainer in exchange for fish. One dolphin started started hiding paper under a rock and then breaking off small pieces to give the trainer. She also realized that she could get fish for catching a seagull. She soon started to stockpile fish to use as seagull bait, thus creating an exponentially larger seagull problem. Then she taught the other dolphins, which made it worse. So if you ever think dolphins are cute, remember that these little assholes create capitalism of their own volition and are not to be trusted.
It’s not really a beef with dolphins, but with their image in our culture. They get typecast as these sweet, precious, flawless guardian angels of the sea, secretly smarter than humans and worthy of protection at absolutely all costs.
But they’re actually no smarter than any other average mammal, probably exceeded in intelligence by pigs, and they’re anything but innocent. They’re some of the most brutal predators in nature, and prone to killing other animals just for “play,” territorialism, or sheer aggression. Male dolphins will have sex with just about anything they can and will sometimes beat something to death so they can have sex with the corpse.
If a bottle-nosed dolphin gets hurt by human actions, there can be world-wide outrage. I was around for the panic over dolphins getting caught in fishing nets and every brand of tuna having to advertise that they were “DOLPHIN SAFE!”
…..But the bottle nose isn’t even slightly endangered. If anything, it’s probably over-populated because we’ve elevated it so high above other animals. While we tip-toe around even accidentally harming dolphins, we’re rapidly depleting countless other animals even as by-catch, and we’re driving sharks in particular to near extinction while still casting them as the mean, scary monsters next to angelic, heroic dolphins.
The worst part? The ABSOLUTE worst part????
We can never tip the balance back by eating dolphin for a while instead of shark’s fins or whatever, because their bodies concentrate more mercury than just about anything else in the ocean and can make you deathly ill. We made them POISONOUS and they’re still thriving.
I bet they’re delicious, too. They look like they’d taste like pure butter.
Pods of male dolphins are known to pursue and corner lone females in order to mate with them.
Seriously, a lot of marine mammals are actually really brutal.
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