Well, it turns out that dolphins are even smarter than previously thought because they can in fact learn and/or teach this trick to other dolphins. According to Sea World trainers, other dolphins who could not blow bubbles have learned how to do it by watching the dolphins who could.
That’s pretty darn great. Watch the video above to see clip after clip of dolphins blowing bubbles. Man, when was the last time I was at Sea World? Like…before I was a teen I think. Geez.
I’m posting this mainly to prove a point to my sisters: DOLPHINS CAN KILL YOU.
It started as a joke between me and my sisters about how dolphins can kill you in the water, but what I thought to be untrue has turned out to be quite the opposite. Dolphins are dangerous creatures in the water as some marine scientists have found out. The dolphins will engage in brutal attacks on other porpoises with no apparent motive. They aren’t even doing it for food. They simply kill and then move on.
New evidence has been compiled by marine scientists that prove the normally placid dolphin is capable of brutal attacks both on innocent fellow marine mammals and, more disturbingly, on its own kind.
Film taken of gangs of dolphins repeatedly ramming baby porpoises, tossing them in the air and pursuing them to the death has solved a long-term mystery of what causes the death of so many of these harmless mammals – but has left animal experts baffled as to the motive.
Before this, many people including researchers and scientists had thought that the dolphins were playing with their young. This just goes to show that a wild animal is always going to retain a part of its natural wild side. This isn’t to say that dolphins are all killing machines now, but it does bring up some odd behavior never realized by the larger public.
Why are dolphins considered one of the smartest animals in the sea? Well, this video may explain that answer to some degree.
Here, we can see dolphins playing in the water with bubble rings that they have somehow learned to do on their own!
According to Project Delphis, the dolphins create these bubble rings in the water “by injecting air into water vortices, about the thickness of a straw and 1 to 2 feet in diameter. The rings don’t rise to the surface! The babies play with these underwater toys by moving them around with their rostrum, or biting them. They even bounce the rings off the wall, and elongate them with a flick of their dorsal fins into 15 foot corkscrews.”
That’s just amazing. You have to watch the video above to see it in action!
