Dolphin usage

[mislav]

Aren't we animals too? It's been filmed many times that an orca will "toy" with a seal instead of quickly killing it and eating it. Sometimes they will pass it off to another one and let them throw it around for awhile.

I am not an animal!
-The Elephant Man

Yep, I've seen that documentary. Don't remember whether orcas eat the seal later or not.

[DennisS]

If this dolphin-assassin thing is an urban legend, it's a very good one. Although I'm quite certain that such research doesn't exist today. I think the only dolphins kept by the Navy now are the bunch used by Mine Warfare crowd based out of San Diego. I've seen those critters when they came to Texas in 1998 for simulated missions. They're the friendliest dolphins I've ever seen.

Another dolphin group has T-shirts showing a muscle bound dolphin squeezing a frog to death as their logo and the phrase "No frogman escapes". Wishful thinking perhaps?

Ahhhhhh they're gentle swimmers, our buddies from the deep
http://www.fishingnj.org/artdolphagress.htm

I don't see what the big deal is, if you can train a german shepherd to attack anyone that comes into a perimeter, why not dolphins.

[Tully NE]

Bottlenose dolphins are dickheads, man.

[Zingtea]

Bottlenose dolphins are dickheads, man.

If you're going to say that, why don't you put all humans into one category and say the same thing about us?:shakehead They're intelligent, so of course they're not ALL going to be the same playful, peace-loving creatures we imagine them as. Notice that the porpoise killings and infanticides don't happen everywhere. It's a matter of culture; cetaceans' behavior evolves differently in different places, or different pods, you get the idea. That's the price for a big brain.