AIBU to be livid how dolphins are portrayed compared to how they are?

You tell 'em OP.

Sick to death of those shiney, slippery evil BASTARDS!!

Oi lay off the pandas!

By saying yes or no

No means no in all species

How exactly does a dolphin consent to sex?

brilliant thread.....
the fact that someone wanked off a dolphin left me speechless

I only saw some dolphins a few months ago. I thought they were beautiful and took some photos.
I will keep the photos in case the police need them as evidence against them for the many crimes they have committed.

I keep re reading this and giggling 😆

I can't agree about pandas though. I am going to China to see them!!! Mind, my kids have also swum near wild dolphins so clearly I like to like dangerously.

I'm with you on this op. At least killer whales have been labelled appropriately. Dolphins are the wolf in sheep's clothing of our oceans.

This thread is like reading that David Attenborough has a dodgy past. Dolphins have a dark side and aren't always sainted people-rescuers? A bit like chimps, who are also highly intelligent and can be brutal. Certainly makes a change from the things that normally get people worked up on Mumsnet!

I think Bugs Bunny probably financed the film Watetshipdown leaving a whole generation traumatized and feeling sorry for rabbits

So the rabbits could carry on their highly sexual and deviant ways

I feel similar about Robins.

My ( adult) DD and I were watching the penguins at London Zoo - ‘ aw, how cute, they are playing chase’ . ‘Hold on a moment, what are they......:( :( ‘

We anthropomorphise animals, give them human names to differentiate them in documentaries, find them adorable when they behave like human species - the nice behaviour anyway - and forget that they are not the same, even the domesticated species.

If you're telling me dolphins are evil bastards why did Flipper care so much about Sandy and Bud?

He was grooming them. Typical dolphin behaviour.

Omg I couldn't agree more OP. I have been saying this for years.

Nasty bony heads and razor teeth.

I thought I was alone in hating the bloody things.

That SNL clip is brilliant KickBishop it's a parody of the documentary I referred to above.

Although I joke about it, it's actually a terribly sad story of the lengths people would go to to pursue their whacky ideas about science. They gave the dolphins LSD to see what effect that would have, and almost deafened them by using a jackhammer nearby to try to get a response. in the end Peter the dolphin did indeed kill himself by going to the bottom of his pool and choosing not to come up to breathe - essentially asphyxiating himself. It's horrific.

But yeah, the OP is correct. Dolphins are indeed rapey bastards who kill porpoises for fun.

Whilst kayaking I watched a gang of male mallard ducks repeatedly mount a lone female in the water. They were all trying to mount her at once. She was flailing and fighting for her life. They weren't allowing her any chance to get her head above water to breathe.

It was brutal. I tried to ignore it as I guess I thought I needed to let 'nature run it's course' but she got weaker and weaker and began to bleed from a big wound in her neck inflicted by the males.

Eventually I paddled over and got her into my kayak using my paddle. She was exhausted so it was easy.

Took her to local vet. She died later that day.

I was shocked at the brutality of it. The vet said that some species of duck do this when they haven't found a mate. They hang around in groups and forcibly and violently mate with any females they find. Often killing them in the process.

I've never been able to look at ducks in the same way again.

I'm with you OP.

People attributing human characteristics to animals is always problematic. Lots of animals look cute but are naturally aggressive, and should be taken seriously. Dolphins are no different.

You are doing the same thing - talking about gang rape and husbands. These are human concepts that have no application to animals.

Dolphins aren’t evil, they aren’t smug, they aren’t conspiring. They are wild animals, focussed on survival, behaving in the way wild animals behave. It’s mad to try and humanise them in any way, whether as good or evil.

Doves are quite aggressive whereas rats are devoted parents.

It's nature, you need to get over it.

I saw a documentary a couple of years ago where a lunatic hippy type woman wanted to give birth in the sea surrounded by dolphins. (I think she lived in Hawaii).

In the end she had to give birth in hospital for medical reasons. I spent the entire programme shouting at the telly "DON'T BE BLOODY STUPID, THEY WILL EAT YOUR CHILD"

This thread is funny. Starts out everyone asking if the OP is high or on gin or glue and gradually people are seeing what OP sees.

I take issue with the theme song of 'Flipper'. He is not fast as lightning. That was a massive exaggeration. Tch

Rabbits are another animal that pretend to be cute

My rabbit would rape my ankle any chance he got and my hand he didn’t care about my feelings. And he ruined many pairs of socks that were beyond darning while he was having his fun

I wonder what the Daily Mail will do with this thread.... do we have immigrant dolphins?

YANBU. They are sharks in drag.

A. MAY. ZING.

How I have only just seen this post is beyond me.

Made my morning 😂😂😂

We used to have ducks when I was a kid and a load of males drowned a female while trying to shag her all at once
Worst bit was they were her sons
So yes, ducks are evil feckers too