See other Miscellaneous Articles
Title: Dolphins often seem to want to befriend us - do they know something we don't?
Source:
[None]
URL Source: http://www.independent.co.uk/enviro ... omething-we-dont-10493809.html
Published: Sep 10, 2015
Author: staff
Post Date: 2015-09-10 13:29:36 by Horse
Keywords: None
Views: 634
Comments: 12
Why, despite our frequent cruelty to them, do dolphins seem to actively seek out encounters with humans? Are they trying to tell us something? Do they think we have something in common? In her new book, Susan Casey explains all. Poster Comment: Long but interesting.
Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest
#1. To: Horse (#0)
It's very simple (thanks for a tour of beautiful vignettes). Dolphins are people too, except more good-natured and forgiving than we'll ever be -- and their lives are all-natural for real except for all the medicines and chemicals of ours they poor things are swimming in. Animals are better than people, except when they're not. Seemingly, it's a rare mammal or bird (at least) that's not a natural-born fast friend of our species under the right conditions, each with its own personality. I'm wondering what exactly makes critters different from us anyway, much less inferior. It's said animals don't reason -- a clearly, ridiculously false notion. Even bugs do. Sense of humor and fun, sense of right and wrong, speech, musical talent, courtship rituals (some spiders even wrap presents for their honeys), every kind of emotion -- it's all there.
Dolphins are assholes. They commit murder and gang rape on their own species. Dolphins in captivity have tried to have sex with their trainers.
#2. To: Horse (#0)
When wild dolphins are fed they become violent when the don't get some food.
But they are intelligent creatures, maybe they just think we're cool.
Anyone offended by this post, click here.
 | "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion." -Albert Camus. |
#3. To: Armadillo, NeoconsNailed (#2)
Goo Goo Ga Joob! Help! I think I've taken too much pudding!
The best thing you do to relax, and you will have no problem. You'll have no problem with this thing if you just relax. - Jim Jones
#4. To: Dakmar (#3)
It's 2000 light years from home.
-Alex Kurtagic
#5. To: X-15 (#4)
Not my problem anymore, X.
The best thing you do to relax, and you will have no problem. You'll have no problem with this thing if you just relax. - Jim Jones
#6. To: Dakmar (#3)
Just don't get caught down by the duck pond with Otis, Goober, Opie and the boys
-Alex Kurtagic
#7. To: X-15 (#6)
Down by the duck pond I can't blame Opie, but I shot ol' Barney dead....
I lost my Helen
The best thing you do to relax, and you will have no problem. You'll have no problem with this thing if you just relax. - Jim Jones
#8. To: X-15, Lod (#6)
The best thing you do to relax, and you will have no problem. You'll have no problem with this thing if you just relax. - Jim Jones
#9. To: X-15 (#6)
And now for some reason that seemed relevant a minute ago, here's Bea's Song:
The best thing you do to relax, and you will have no problem. You'll have no problem with this thing if you just relax. - Jim Jones
#10. To: all (#9)
The stars carve out a freakish, decadent lifestyle from themselves, and then write songs about how far from home they are. 
#11. To: All (#10)
#12. To: All (#11) (Edited)
http://www.sciencealert.com/giraffes-hum-to-each-other-at-night-time-you- just-can-t-hear-them http://www.sciencealert.com/science-says-sperm-whales-live-in-clans-and-learn- a-language?perpetual=yes&limitstart=1 Thanks for the reminder about sciencelaert.com, Tatar.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/Latest