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Deadly Attack On Lone Porpoise By Dolphins Caught On Camera
News Type: Event — Seeded on Mon Nov 9, 2009 2:35 PM EST
Article Source: KTVU.comadvertisement
The video shows male dolphins coralling the porpoise, ramming it and drowning it, then bringing the carcass to researchers on a boat and swimming away.
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{"commentId":10577686,"authorDomain":"tydicea"}
Okeanis, a Moss Landing-based conservation group, shot video of bottlenose dolphins fatally attacking a porpoise. It helps explain why carcasses were found with internal bleeding, rake marks and broken bones."We saw severe beatings," said Okeanis Chief Scientist Daniela Maldini. "It was a mob of dolphins."
Apologies for the previous link being broken. Reseeded.
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- 3 votes
#1 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 2:37 PM EST{"commentId":10578709,"authorDomain":"myriver"}
Scientists now want to test the testosterone levels of the male dolphins to see if higher levels could be playing a role.
Oh my frikking Gawd!!!!!!!
We should outlaw testosterone, and bottle it, and use it as a roach spray. It is truly USELESS.
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- 5 votes
#2 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 3:20 PM EST{"commentId":10578877,"authorDomain":"tydicea"}
LOL!
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":10581656,"authorDomain":"reddirthippy"}
Well I had an old cat that would bring me dead mice and rats leaving them on the porch in front of the door.
Have a dog that brings me dead rabbits possums etc.
Maybe they are just trying to get in good with humans or maybe they have been alittle too close to us and are picking up some of our behavior.
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- 2 votes
#3 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 5:23 PM EST{"commentId":10587819,"authorDomain":"kshark"}
That, the animals bringing the dead animals to you, has a lot to do with your pets giving you a present. While sure they can show affection, but innately they are still hunting animals, and creatures. Bringing a dead animal is saying to master or owner look what I did for you, my gift to you for doing a good dead.
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What happened with the dolphins and porpoise, cetaceans are social animals and are highly intelligent, very intelligent. They can be territorial especially with the harem, as dolphins are the only other animals I can think of off the top of my head that will rape and control female dolphins. Now I don't know what the porpoise was doing it if accidentally got into the dolphin pod area, if anything with food, no idea, would need to know the story and reason leading up to the final result.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":10593035,"authorDomain":"reddirthippy"}
The part that got me was they brought it to the people.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":10610558,"authorDomain":"kshark"}
Possibly, no true confirmation or true understanding, possibly they also brought it as a gift to them as well, like cats and dogs do.
If the people were not around they might have just left it,
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{"commentId":10582011,"authorDomain":"boneclinkz"}
"It was a mob of dolphins."
They mean this in the Godfather sense of the word.
"Me and the boys noticed you didn't cough up da fish this week. It's a dangerous ocean, pal. Bad things can happen to anybody. Might be you have an unfortunate accident. Don Squeaks can protect you, but ya gotta show some respect."
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- 4 votes
#4 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 5:40 PM EST{"commentId":10582294,"authorDomain":"darreth"}
The more we learn about animals the more we learn we are NOWHERE near as SMART as we think we are!!! *GRIN*
It sounds like dolphins just DON'T like porpoises!!! And they don't seem to be concerned about WHO knows IT!!!
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- 2 votes
#5 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 5:54 PM EST{"commentId":10582400,"authorDomain":"jibade7"}
This kind of behavior has been documented for years in dolphins. It actually seems to be something very highly intelligent life forms do. Kill for no reason. Humans, chimps, dolphins, etc...
The truth sucks.
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- 3 votes
#6 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 5:58 PM EST{"commentId":10582506,"authorDomain":"tydicea"}
It actually seems to be something very highly intelligent life forms do. Kill for no reason.
There is always a reason, even if not understood by the observer/investigator.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":10582869,"authorDomain":"darreth"}
I dunno Tony... I've seen several documentaries involving chimpanzees that show the males engaging in what can ONLY be called BLOODLUST! In one there was a gang that got ahold of 3 colobus monkeys... the group had JUST eaten (they had killed a small gazelle) so they WEREN'T hungry! The males had worked themselves into a FRENZY and the colobus' just happened to be where they could get ahold of them... the only REASON for this was BLOODLUST!
Like it says in the article... people tend to think that animals are all "Cute & Fuzzy" all the time! There is a side to nature that not everyone wants to see!
BTW: Thanks for the article!
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":10583383,"authorDomain":"tydicea"}
In one there was a gang that got ahold of 3 colobus monkeys
I saw one of these documentaries w/the chimps and the colobus. During their normal course chimps will when the opportunity presents itself target the colobus for protein to supplement their diet. I think as a result they have an instinctive aggression to the colobus. But I am stumped as to why if they were fed and not hungry they would still hunt them. But like I said there is always a reason even, if locked away. That's my belief, anyway. :-) Thanks for the post.
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":10582935,"authorDomain":"gracchus"}
then bringing the carcass to researchers on a boat and swimming away
This is the freakiest part. Is it a present for the researchers or the ultimate indignity for the porpoise?
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- 5 votes
#7 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 6:25 PM EST{"commentId":10584494,"authorDomain":"tsevigny423"}
Why did the dolphin commit suicide?
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- 3 votes
#8 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 7:50 PM EST{"commentId":10584803,"authorDomain":"gracchus"}
To get to the other side?
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":10585019,"authorDomain":"tsevigny423"}
He had no porpoise in life.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":10588353,"authorDomain":"ilovepizza"}
LOL
This news is still disturbing, though. The things we DON'T know!
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":10587764,"authorDomain":"usualsuspect3"}
Must be territorial ,maybe porpoises attack baby dolphins and humans only see the retaliation.
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- 3 votes
#9 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 11:22 PM EST{"commentId":10588160,"authorDomain":"the-spirit"}
Obviously racism is at work here.
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- 2 votes
#10 - Mon Nov 9, 2009 11:53 PM EST{"commentId":10624376,"authorDomain":"tsevigny423"}
We need to have an underwater beer summit.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":10588908,"authorDomain":"quinnwr"}
It could be a little sexual frustration," she said, "and a lot of males around for very few females. That's my favorite in terms of an explanation,
I would think that kind of aggression would primarily show up in interactions between the dolphin males, not as attacks on a (sexually) non-competing species.
It makes more sense to think it might be caused by food or territory competition.
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- 3 votes
#11 - Tue Nov 10, 2009 1:04 AM EST{"commentId":10605322,"authorDomain":"ma91744-1"}
Maybe the bringing of the carcass to the researchers was a warning to the researchers: mess with us and you'll end up like this fool.
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- 1 vote
#12 - Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:54 PM EST{"commentId":10611824,"authorDomain":"usualsuspect3"}
Sleep with the fishes. Good one LOL.
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