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

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Otherwize · 06/10/2018 23:48

I am angry and sick and tired of how dolphins try and make out they are nice and friendly and cute when they are anything but. They are one of the most aggressive species in the animal kingdom, regularly involved in GANG RAPES of other dolphins that sometimes goes on for days, they also kill their OWN children so that the mother pays more attention to her husband dolphin so he can have sex with her without her being distracted by her child and they also are aggressive to humans when nobody is looking (I.e in the sea when nobody is around, not when they have an audience like at a sea world centre) But everyone says “aww dolphins are so cute and so friendly” but their not.

I think it’s because they look like they are always smiling and laughing that people think they are cute, but to me they look like they have evil eyes and cackling rather than laughing. People say alligators and crocodiles and snakes are evil what about dolphins? People only see the tame ones that like to show off to humans and do tricks and let us swim with them and stroke them and think all dolphins are like that but the ones in the wild are a different matter altogether.

Plus, people say that dolphins are clever because they use clicks to communicate with each other. Has nobody stopped to think that they may be clicking and conspiring amongst themselves?

I’m actually fuming, only because I just got back from someone showing holiday pics and they were going on and on about the dolphins and how they were so cute and I told them dolphins aren’t cute and they are dangerous and would they swim with and pet crocodiles? They Didn’t get why it was the same but any animal can turn against you and I have even saw footage of a dolphin purposely try to drown a human and drag them underwater. AND they also kill other sea baby animals and play volleyball with them, they don’t even eat them or are threatened by them, they just do it for a laugh. Why are they seen as friendly animals?

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IfyouseeRitaMoreno · 07/10/2018 08:01

Humans are way worse.

DisrespectfulAdultFemale · 07/10/2018 08:01

Did a dolphin piss on your chips this morning?

GlittercheeksOakleaf · 07/10/2018 08:00

Yanbu OP. I've always thought I was alone in seeing through the cute, friendly act and knowing they were evil so am pleased to know I'm not. Everyone IRL thinks I'm mad.

donquixotedelamancha · 07/10/2018 08:00

The rape aspect has been reported which is why I wouldn't swim with them as I've heard the reason they interact so well with people as our skeletons are very similar to theirs which worries me

NADALT

LuluBellaBlue · 07/10/2018 07:58

Best thread I’ve ever read.

nunnthewiser · 07/10/2018 07:58

Bottlenosed tossers.

gaggiagirl · 07/10/2018 07:55

Eeeee my mam and dad live near amble harbour! I'll ask them about the local gossip.

YoureAllABunchOfBastards · 07/10/2018 07:49

Didn't someone get into trouble for trying to interfere with the dolphin that lived in Amble harbour?

Dolphins look smug. Sneaky bastards 🐬

Awks · 07/10/2018 07:44

Please put this in classics

Hassled · 07/10/2018 07:43

Hang on a minute - - no way that wasn't real. That dolphin saved lives every single week. If you're telling me dolphins are evil bastards why did Flipper care so much about Sandy and Bud?

Spongeface · 07/10/2018 07:40

Totally agree with OP.
Never understand why people are pleased to be going swimming with dolphins!

TeaAndNoSympathy · 07/10/2018 07:37

What about porpoises? Are they ok?

Gaspodethetalkingdog · 07/10/2018 07:31

And humans are so wonderful to each other and the rest of the animal kingdom?

sakura06 · 07/10/2018 07:29

There's a Carl Hiaasen novel set in an aquarium with a sub-plot about a dolphin. Highly disturbing. OP is correct about a lot of dolphin behaviour. I think we'd do well not to sentimentalise wild animals.

Oysterbabe · 07/10/2018 07:29

Do you know what I hate? Squirrels. They're rats with better PR.

topcat2014 · 07/10/2018 07:20

I am with you, OP,

ditto seals - did you sea the seal that plucked a child off a bridge?

Now, at least with Killer Whales you know what you are getting.

I actually think Killer Whales are ace - but even so..

ShizeItsWeegie · 07/10/2018 07:16

Husband dolphin (smacks head) why didn't I think of trading my old man in for a husband dolphin? Think of all the fish I would get. Fish is good for you. Calcium in the bones and all that omega. How does one go about getting a husband dolphin OP?

ShizeItsWeegie · 07/10/2018 07:13

Everyone goes on about the royal family being reptilians. Perhaps they are actually dolphins ?

SadieAB9 · 07/10/2018 07:11

Dolphins "try and make out they are nice and friendly and cute" (like they're deliberately acting!!!)

"They also kill their OWN children so that the mother pays more attention to her **husband dolphin " Husband dolphin!!!

"They also are aggressive to humans when nobody is looking" (I love how this makes it look so planned out and calculated!

Ohhh I love this post! 😂😂😂😂

SadieAB9 · 07/10/2018 07:06

I've joked about this in the past but I LOVE how furious you are about it! Haha!

SadieAB9 · 07/10/2018 07:06

This is so so funny 😂

Poisondartfrog · 07/10/2018 06:50

Hang on have I understood this correctly? The reason dolphins interact so well with us is because our skeletons are similar to theirs? So does this means they have x-ray vision then?

Dhalandchips · 07/10/2018 06:36

I live near a river. Seen duck gang rapes. Fucking nasty. The female often dies.

PaintingOwls · 07/10/2018 06:34

Dolphins are fucking evil.

sawbucks · 07/10/2018 06:33

We should all definitely believe everything the OP says. She googled this dolphin gang rape stuff.

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