Dolphins - a wicked cool walpaper from National Geographic

[Xipe Totec]

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. Indeed. It is! Thanks

:)

[Sequoia]

2. My wallpaper for the day. Thanks.

[boobooday]

3. Dolphin surfing!

Rad!

[benld74]

4. SURFS UP!!!!!

[Judi Lynn]

5. Thank you. Simply wonderful. n/t

[Bonobo]

6. They're probably raping a female dolphin.

That's what they do you know.

http://www.believermag.com/nonbookreviews/mammal_dolphin.php


MAMMAL
DOLPHIN
delphinidae
NOT SO SQUEAKY-CLEAN

Sadly, those cute beeping, clicking, autistic-children–loving Flippers are not the Goody Two-shoes we think they are, and for the last decade, scientists have been trying to shove the cold, hard, bottle-nosed truth in our enchanted faces, but we will not hear it. No! we shout as we leap into warm Florida waters to commune with the ocean’s graceful and glossy ambassadors. Shut up! we cry, as experts from Scotland to Australia attempt to stop us from grabbing onto that fin and riding off into the sunset. La la la… we hum loudly to drown out the sounds of science. (RAPE! MURDER! BABY-KILLING!) LA LA LA! Like the ancient Greeks and Romans, we remain ever-worshipful of dolphins and stuck on the idea that a mutual affinity exists between our species. We believe that in contrast to, say, dingoes, dolphins would never, say, eat our babies. Like the ancient Greeks and Romans, we’re suckers for a good myth.

DOLPHIN THERAPY

In a world where appearance is everything, dolphins—with their upturned mouths—are tops. Then there’s all that “dolphins are smart and use sonar” stuff. Plus, there are those benevolent things dolphins do for us: Whether you’re terminally ill or just feeling a bit crappy, swimming with dolphins is pretty much guaranteed to put a smile on your face. Dolphins like to frolic. They’re peppy. That’s why dolphin interaction packages abound, and many outfits now take you out of the pool and into the wild for some playful dolphin therapy. Perhaps it will be a glorious spirit-elevating splash with the sweetie of the sea. He might oblige you. Or kill you. Few humans have yet been killed by dolphins, but many humans think it’s only a matter of time. We’re getting too much in their faces. And we’ve gotten to know them a whole lot better, too.

UNSPEAKABLE ACTS

The following dolphin-perpetrated atrocities have been widely documented:

* gang rape of dolphin females
* prostitution of same
* porpoise holocausts
* adults grabbing adorable baby dolphins in their beaks and whacking them to death

[hunter]

7. Wow. They're almost as bad as humans.

Given the right tools I wonder if they could trash an entire planet?

No nukes for Dolphins!

Thank goodness dolphins don't hunt as we do... you might just end up in a can of "Land Tuna," although some brands might be labeled "Human Safe: This land tuna was harvested in full accordance with government regulations minimizing death and injury of bone headed dirt squid populations."

The Japanese dolphins would scoff at such sensitivities of course, and bone headed land squid would remain a traditional delicacy.

[Nihil]

9. Thanks for that ...

:spray: :spank:

[supernova]

8. I think that just means

cetaceans come in the full range of personality traits, from cuddly to psychotic, just like we do.

Also, dolphins have been known to attack humans in these x-species exchanges. No known reason but possibly feeling cornered; they are wild afterall.