Elephants have been noted to rape rhinos as stress release. Every animal (including humans) can do bad shit, theres no point in demonizing particular species.
I also think that the more intelligent an animal is the the more variation in behaviour is among individuals of that species. Behaviour and traditions between pods vary drastically. Because they're a different species to us, it's pretty easy for us to look at fucked up things a group of dolphins do and assume it's something that is an innate behavior as a species instead of something that specific pod does as a "tradition."
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Well it couldn't be that ba-... "Peter, being an adolescent dolphin, frequently had sexual urges which disrupted his lessons, and taking Peter to a downstairs pool with two female dolphins proved to be a logistical issue for Lovatt. Eventually, Lovatt relieved Peter's urges herself, stating "It wasn't sexual on my part. Sensuous perhaps. It seemed to me that it made the bond closer. Not because of the sexual activity, but because of the lack of having to keep breaking. And that's really all it was. I was there to get to know Peter. That was part of Peter ... It would just become part of what was going on, like an itch, just get rid of that scratch and we would be done and move on.""
If I remember correctly, that's incorrect. It's anthropomorphism on our part. What's actually happening is a rapid alteration between two competing instincts, predatory and phobic. It looks like playing to us, but they're actually going "Imma kill it," and then immediately "I'm afraid of it" and back and forth and back and forth. Strays and African wildcats don't do it, because they were taught how to hunt from a young age so they lack the fear response; they're less pussy about it. Thank you.
I mean, since dolphins are highly intelligent (for a big fish) they gotta distract themselves and when you're in the middle of the ocean you don't have much to do so druging yourself in pufferfish and using othee fishes to play before killing them it's not as absurd
also dolphins don't share our moral compass and a lot of what you said are behaviors you see in all kinds of animals
- A Brazilian male dolphin named Tião was the only one recorded to ever have killed a human after two beachgoers tried to restrain him, getting free and striking one of them in the ribs, causing his death by internal bleeding. Previously and despite interacting peacefully with tourists he'd been in return frequently touched, punched, grabbed, pulled, forcibly restrained, forced to ingest beer and choked by having its blow hole blocked with ice cream sticks and cones. He disappeared one day, probably after being victim of a revenge killing.
- Humans kill approximately 300.000 dolphins every year, which is more or less the population of Iceland. Most of them are collateral damage from fishing operations that don't bother being careful because that would cost money.
Can you stop with the anti dolphin propaganda, they're not human. Morality is one of the biggest dividers between humans and the rest of life, to pretend dolphins are offending some greater concept or right or wrong, when all their doing is living their best life is fucking stupid.
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u/ILikeJapaneseMuchOwU Femboy in denial 12h ago
tldr: Let's just say Dolphins would be Hitler's biggest fans
More context:
So dolphins have many morally questionable behaviors by human standards, some of which include:
- gang rape, I am not joking