Dolphins, long considered the world's most intelligent, sensitive and sociable creatures, have a secret: they can also be wanton killers:
The first was initially believed to show a dolphin fishing for salmon - until closer examination revealed a relentless attack on a porpoise, its body spinning round with such force that its back was broken and its soft tissue shattered.
Marine experts now believe that these displays of attacks on non-rival, non-predatory, peace-loving porpoises and, more shockingly, of dolphin infanticide, may have always taken place.
It is only now, with dolphins' more human-friendly behaviour taking them closer to tourist boats and beaches, that the violence is being witnessed first hand. Until the shocking realisation, dolphin-watchers in America had believed they were watching the mammals at play with their young.
Link - via The Wide World of Timbo
Did you know that they only "smile" when humans are watching.The moment our backs are turned they return to their usual malevolent snarl!!
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Not that I endorse it...
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Peace-loving porpoises? Give me a break. It's the ocean, these are animals. Top level predators. We'll understand them better when we stop looking at projecting human ideals on them.
So stick that dolphin up your arse, Hayden Panettiere you Froggy-Yank, you.
So I wonder if this really has "always" happened among dolphins, or if it's also a recent development in reaction to their dwindling numbers.