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Dunno, If I'd be loving it or absolutely terrified! 😯
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They [i]are[/i] dolphins 😉
I informed my neighbour of this a week or so ago and her reply was...
[i]"Yeah, but really nasty dolphins, though..."[/i]
Made me chuckle.
[s]Wheel[/s] wake sucking ****s
I was expecting at least 5 posts before I got told this!wiggles - Member
They are dolphins
They doing that on porpoise?
Having a whale of a time
Amazing animals, but I think I'd want a bigger boat.
I remember spotting dolphins in the wild, just off ullapool and sure, thinking "this is brilliant" but also "really glad I'm not in the water with those" so god knows what it's like with orcas.
I was windsurfing at Moon Beach, on the Red Sea a few years back. It's quite an isolated spot and I was about a mile out to sea, heading back in, fully planing, probably doing 20 knots or so. Up popped a couple of big dolphins one either side of me and they accompanied me for a minute or two until they swam off.
While I was initially exhilarated, they had quite a menacing air - it felt as if I was being escorted out by a couple of big (they were very big) bouncers. None of this larking around.
By coincidence, I watched [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackfish_(film) ]Blackfish[/url] last night, still available on BBC iPlayer, and well worth a watch.
One of the significant facts they mentioned was that no human has ever been killed by an Orca in the wild.
Although, of course, that may be down to lack of opportunity and people staying well out of their way. 😉
Bastard things,
David Attenborough filmed them chasing a whale and her baby for over 6 hours.
They finally seperated the baby and drowned it.
They ate the tongue and jaw.
It was as if the were hunting for sport.
They are carnivores, it's what they do.
It was as if the were hunting for sport
Can you imagine such a species?! Isnt there some famous footage of them doing something similar with a seal and just tossing it around? (edit; MTG writing at same time as me?). Got Blackfish on the saved list on Iplayer before it drops off again.
seen this ugly mofo that spawned a The Onion style headline?
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/05/04/goblin-shark-caught-in-gu_n_5263545.html
God, winey americans. Couldn't watch it with the sound on.
Carnivore eats other animals shocker!
iolo - Member
Bastard things,
David Attenborough filmed them chasing a whale and her baby for over 6 hours.
They finally seperated the baby and drowned it.
They ate the tongue and jaw.
It was as if the were hunting for sport.
Of course, you'd never catch a human doing something like that...
Apparently the main identified cause (*) for harbour porpoise deaths in scotland is being beaten to death by bottlenose dolphins. They don't eat them, nobody's really sure why they do it. Probably just because they're scottish.
(* it's based on examining washed up remains, so no doubt there's a lot where the cause is "Got eaten by something" which don't show up in the survey)
Of course, you'd never catch a human doing something like that.
I agree that humans are bastard things too
Do other fish only beat dolphins on a certain day of the week then?
One of the significant facts they mentioned was that no human has ever been killed by an Orca in the wild.
Although, of course, that may be down to lack of opportunity and people staying well out of their way.
Or they never found the body.
By coincidence, I watched Blackfish last night, still available on BBC iPlayer, and well worth a watch.
Indeed. Worth a watch!
Also, any excuse....
Whales and dolphins, whales and dolphins, yeah!
Apparently the main identified cause (*) for harbour porpoise deaths in scotland is being beaten to death by bottlenose dolphins. They don't eat them, nobody's really sure why they do it. Probably just because they're scottish.
😀
Have you seen the foreheads on those things? Head butted to death by a Glaswegian dolphin, what a way to go.
I had a similar experience to BigJohn. Mine was when slogging along off the plane. I pumped and pumped for all I was worth. Not that it made any difference to the Dolphin once I was planning. I suppose it would just be a light jog keeping up with the strange thing it was checking out.
I was scared initially because I thought it was a shark. Then because it was some bloody size.
From Wiki:
During the filming of the third episode of the BBC documentary Frozen Planet (2011), a group of orcas were filmed trying to "wave wash"[13] the film crew's 18-foot zodiac boat as they were filming. The crew had earlier taped the group hunting seals in the same fashion. It was not mentioned if any of the crew were hurt in the encounter
On June 15, 1972, the hull of the 43-foot-long (13 m) wooden schooner Lucette (Lucy) was stove in by a pod of killer whales and sank approximately 200 miles west of the Galapagos Islands. The group of six people aboard escaped to an inflatable life raft and a solid-hull dinghy
I suspect that the above footage is a bit of practice for them rather like the chasing and killing of the young whale. I certainly wouldn't fancy stopping the boat and jumping in for a swim - it might get a bit more serious fairly quickly.
Some of them are dab hands at taking out Great Whites too.
