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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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PrettyInPJs · 07/10/2018 00:38

Well they’re being talked about on mumsnet so one step at a time

Dontletthebastardsgrindyoudown · 07/10/2018 00:38

Those sneaky bastard dolphins always being evil while ours backs are turned Angry

AnonaMouse1 · 07/10/2018 00:39

Is this a Sharon thread?

Gersemi · 07/10/2018 00:39

That's nothing. Polar bears eat each other, and otters kill other animals just for fun.

cueominousmusic · 07/10/2018 00:39

@TheMaddHugger: This incompletely off topic, but does that gif show Spock actually winking? What episode was that? Was it the one where he, Kirk and the lovely Diana Muldaur lent their bodies to some aliens?

EmilyRosiEl · 07/10/2018 00:39

Dolphins sound as bad as humans!

Also they are potentially bright enough for advanced cognition so would probably realize that they were causing other animals to suffer- just like humans.

Perhaps OP they are complex creatures with a range of good and nasty behaviours?

Deadringer · 07/10/2018 00:40

Dolphins, just sharks with good PR.

Rebecca36 · 07/10/2018 00:40

Well I never knew any of that about dolphins so will certainly not buy one.

ColdNeverBotheredMeAnyway · 07/10/2018 00:40

I do genuinely worry about dolphins. I think they might be infiltrating the Tories. And they can easily swim up the river and get into the Hoyses of Parliament, so it isn’t an empty threat

They've sent one of their cousins for a recce already... Shock

Beluga whale in the Thames

Muchos52 · 07/10/2018 00:40

Marine Biology graduate here and whilst you maybe are getting a bit emotional you are correct.

Dolphins are not cute cuddly super fun animals and they do have a dark side like anyone else. Male adult lions also kill cubs which aren't theirs to make the mother come back into season.

They are well documented for killing porpoises and 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 along with the obvious ethical aspect.

@Aintnothingbutaheartache great quote.

PS - if anyone wants to be seriously pissed off, look up about Sea Otters!!

Dontletthebastardsgrindyoudown · 07/10/2018 00:41

@Deadringer Grin

colouringinpro · 07/10/2018 00:41

Thank you.

Bringonspring · 07/10/2018 00:44

Honeydragon-brilliant!!!!

Sparklesocks · 07/10/2018 00:45

Maybe all animals, like humans, have the capacity to terrible bastards.

PillowOfSociety · 07/10/2018 00:45

“Loving the concept of dolphins conspiring together to take over the world. They're not doing too well so far, are they?”

It’s easy to scoff and be PC about dolphins, but they are radicalising us, one motivational poster at a time.

thecraftyfox · 07/10/2018 00:45

Go back to that husband dolphin thing. Explain this bit please. Not the killing or the sex. The married part...

dontknowwhyitssocold · 07/10/2018 00:46

Bugger I just bought a dolphin ring off Amazon for about 30p I think

Wish I'd known first

AnonaMouse1 · 07/10/2018 00:47

mucho but I don't understand, how is our skeleton anyway near a dolphin skeleton?

coolmule · 07/10/2018 00:47

So when they do all those cute tricks they’re just pretending to be nice, but when they know no ones watching they do all the evil stuff?

TheMaddHugger · 07/10/2018 00:49

Not sure where Gif is from but this is the ep you mentioned www.imdb.com/title/tt0708490/

Honeydragon Of course but I find swans geese and peacocks the worse Grin

Otherwize · 07/10/2018 00:49

Thank you Muchos52 for a sensible post amongst these even though it’s terrifying!

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nethun1 · 07/10/2018 00:51

They voted leave too

abbsisspartacus · 07/10/2018 00:51

Never trust a species that smiles all the time?

They sort of have taken over the world though? Water covers more of the earth than land mass and we sell dolphin paraphernalia on land you don't see them selling human souvenirs do you? And where are there pockets? I don't trust anyone without a pocket!

Mamaryllis · 07/10/2018 00:51

Like Gary Larson’s cows.

MiniLeopardInTheHouse · 07/10/2018 00:52

play volleyball

Are you sure it's not water polo, OP?

I know you've done your research, but it's just if the dolphins played on the beach, you know?

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