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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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freshstart24 · 07/10/2018 09:45

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.

ColdNeverBotheredMeAnyway · 07/10/2018 09:56

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.

caitlinohara · 07/10/2018 09:57

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.

MorningsEleven · 07/10/2018 10:00

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.

PlatypusPie · 07/10/2018 10:01

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.

DoYouLikeHueyLewisandTheNews · 07/10/2018 10:01

I feel similar about Robins.

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 07/10/2018 10:02

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

GhostsToMonsoon · 07/10/2018 10:13

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!

cushioncovers · 07/10/2018 10:13

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. Grin

PastaRedWine · 07/10/2018 10:18

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.

DontHarshMyMello · 07/10/2018 10:19

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.

dementedma · 07/10/2018 10:21

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

AngeloMysterioso · 07/10/2018 10:26

How exactly does a dolphin consent to sex?

EnthusiasmIsDisturbed · 07/10/2018 10:29

By saying yes or no

No means no in all species

MulderitsmeX · 07/10/2018 10:30

Oi lay off the pandas!

WTBE · 07/10/2018 10:34

You tell 'em OP.

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

ChasedByBees · 07/10/2018 10:34

Hate to break it to you, but have you looked at what humans to do each other and other animal species?

DolorestheNewt · 07/10/2018 10:35

At least killer whales have been labelled appropriately.

I read this and all I could think of was "30 degrees. Wash with similar colours. Do not bleach. Reshape while damp."

TroysMammy · 07/10/2018 10:37

I absolutely love pandas but an animal so lazy and uninterested in saving themselves they deserve to die out.

ThanosSavedMe · 07/10/2018 10:40

Totally off topic but I love Carl Hiassan books and the one with the dolphin was hilarious.

lostlondoner · 07/10/2018 10:41

m.youtube.com/watch?v=SeIna1LZHQ4

Slide 4. You're welcome.

Havaina · 07/10/2018 10:43

@MummySharkDoodoododoo

I've touched and swam with a wild dolphin, in the sea, in England. Seemed very friendly to me.

Maybe he thought you were a MILF?

UpstartCrow · 07/10/2018 10:46

Dont blame all dolphins for the actions of a few dolphins. #NODALT

cushioncovers · 07/10/2018 10:47

Dolores GrinGrin

FlosCampi · 07/10/2018 10:47

Has anyone pointed out yet that dolphins used to be land animals? They only sidled off into the sea pretty recently!