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(8,000 posts)I can't help but think how much more kind this whale was than many humans today.
Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)What a wonderful whale story!
Rhiannon12866
(205,320 posts)Thanks for sharing it with us!
mnhtnbb
(31,386 posts)What an experience.
CanSocDem
(3,286 posts)...they think any intelligent incursion is an attack. I hope this scientist learns something from this.
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Number9Dream
(1,561 posts)They seem to know that most humans mean them no harm, and that there is some sort of bond between us.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Reuters) -- A pod of dolphins circled protectively round a group of New Zealand swimmers to fend off an attack by a great white shark, media reported on Tuesday.
Lifesavers Rob Howes, his 15-year-old daughter Niccy, Karina Cooper and Helen Slade were swimming 100 metres (300 feet) off Ocean Beach near Whangarei on New Zealand's North Island when the dolphins herded them -- apparently to protect them from a shark.
Howes tried to drift away from the group, but two of the bigger dolphins herded him back just as he spotted a three-meter (nine feet) great white shark swimming towards the group.
https://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2004/11/20084913260236549.html
Duppers
(28,120 posts)They are simply amazing.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)How can the Japanese kill these beautiful souls?
Aristus
(66,328 posts)by bleating Its a tradition!
"...( blah blah blah) you cannot criticize because...."
I'm sick of that excuse too.
lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)No profit motive for such a charitable, generous, benevolent, public-spirited, munificent, openhanded, bountiful, liberal, beneficent, selfless caring, compassionate, unselfish and kind hearted an action for most MAGA's I know. They'd be rooting for the shark.