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Dolphin Rescues Stranded Whales

Started by tastyrerun · 8 months ago

A couple of whales were stranded on a beach, some people tried for hours to get them back in the ocean, a dolphin showed up, TALKED TO THE WHALES and the whales started cooperating, followed the dolphin and swam off in a couple of minutes. 
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  • James

    1 year ago

    Worst paragraph in the story:
    "I shouldn't do this I know, we are meant to remain scientific," Mr Smith said, "but I actually went into the water with the dolphin and gave it a pat afterwards because she really did save the day."

    ...I hate that kind of Bureaucratic crap.

    Otherwise, cool story.
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  • david

    1 year ago

    Anybody who thinks we’re the only anthropomorphizing species in the world is intelligent.

    Couldn't resist. Cool story indeed.
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  • Bob (ish)

    1 year ago

    The term "anthropomorphism" has etymological roots in the Greek word for "human" (Homo sapiens). Therefore, my response is: of course we're the only species interested in attributing human characteristics to non-human objects, why would any other species be so obsessed with us?

    (That said, I would argue that anthropomorphism contributes to our altruistic empathy for other species. In which case, the dolphins' response to beached whales could be regarded as evidence of "zoomorphism".)
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  • david

    1 year ago

    Ryan and that James guy who posted above are the kinds of people who know what anthropomorphism means and therefore would have got the joke (note the "couldn't resist"). Now it's accessible to the non-nerd audience - thanks. :(
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