Dolphin Bubbles… too… soothing… zzzzzz

• mattytiz
  January 25th, 2008 at 9:11 am

  Amazing.

  Sometimes I feel inferior to these wonderful creatures.

• nobody
  January 25th, 2008 at 9:47 am

  Saw this a little while ago on C.O.
  pretty remarkable, I wonder if humans will ever advance enough to truly understand other species. It would be a real eye opener if the day ever comes, I’m sure.

• Justin
  January 25th, 2008 at 11:36 am

  Damn, how do they do that?

• just a guy
  January 25th, 2008 at 2:15 pm

  when they swim around with the ring near their heads, they look like ‘angel dolphins’ for a moment!

  Dolphins are cool animals. Even ‘wild’ ones (not raised with people).. They’ve been known to aid distressed humans and fend off sharks. Its cool to see such a benevolent nature in an animal.

• S-r-ex
  January 25th, 2008 at 3:44 pm

  Dolphins are after all the second smartest race in the galaxy…

• Ali S.
  January 25th, 2008 at 5:03 pm

  Awwwww. So soothing….and it’s Friday! Yay!

• Andrew32
  January 25th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

  too cool. i wish i could do that. xD

• ted
  January 25th, 2008 at 11:24 pm

  I guess they have nothing else to play with, trapped inside those plastic worlds we’ve created for them.

• Prairie Dog
  January 26th, 2008 at 12:41 am

  Haha, it wouldn’t be a Boing Boing forum without one preachy, whiny post that completely misses the point.

• just a guy
  January 26th, 2008 at 4:02 am

  Boing Boing = neatorama ?

• Nora
  January 26th, 2008 at 7:33 am

  Very cool.
  Oh and prarie dog, wha…?

  1.What comment was preachy?
  2.Boing Boing?

• ted
  January 26th, 2008 at 11:20 am

  I think he was referring to my comment.

  I got the point, but I guess I also saw beyond the animal’s entertainment value.

  Sorry for having a little sympathy.

• fz
  January 27th, 2008 at 1:21 am

  “Its cool to see such a benevolent nature in an animal.”
  Yes, especially considering dolphins enjoy rape, murdering porpoises and killing infants.

• just a guy
  January 27th, 2008 at 11:54 am

  Well, there’s ‘bad guys’ in all races. I was speaking of general trends. There’s a reason that, as a whole, the Dolphins have such a good rep.

  Next on the news, an expose on the secret life:

  Dolphins: Murder on Porpoise.

• Dan
  January 27th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

  I’m with you ted. I’ve got very mixed feelings about seeing animals in captivity.
  Watching Hawaiian spinner dolphins cavorting off the coast of Kauai was one of the most profound experiences of my life…but I still didn’t get to see what they were up to underwater.

• Desmondus
  January 27th, 2008 at 3:06 pm

  In case anyone wondered, that music was from “Into the Woods” by Steven Sondheim called “No One is Alone”.
  It’s sad that I notice music first. But yes, that was very interesting.

• MoonCake
  January 28th, 2008 at 8:55 am

  if i were to choose one animal to be, it would probably be an uncaptured dolphin. yea, ted– sad that we marvel at animals through the plastic homes we build for them… you would think that more people would be vegetarian due to the moral displeasure of seeing road-kill.. but alas, people have no feelings

• Alli
  January 28th, 2008 at 7:33 pm

  A few years back we went to SeaWorld Orlando. When we went down to the view window for the dolphin tank, some woman was doing this weird stuff. She’d rub her hands on the plexi, and the dolphins would come up to her and stare at her . So when she left, we figured we could expand on it. We’d rub on the windows, get their attention then go running away.

  Yes, we played chase/hide n seek with the dolphins for hours. You could tell they wanted to chase or be chased by the way they moved their bodies. The viewing screen was almost 180 degrees, then the tank itself went past the end of the viewing area, so we’d hide behind it and jump out after they chased us. Never knew dolphins blew bubbles when they laughed. We took video of it with an old digital camera; one of these days I need to convert it and put it up.

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