Dolphins seen trying to kill calf

[minidog]

Adult tucuxi dolphins have been seen trying to kill a newborn calf of their own species.

It is the first record of these dolphins attempting infanticide
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8048000/8048288.stm

 

[Spleen]

Just makes them seem smarter to me.

Humans; Smartest animal on the planet. Know to sometimes kill babies.

Dolphins; Second smartest animal on the planet. Now know to sometimes kill babies.


Grim way to look at it I guess, but every cloud has a silver lining.

Next they'll be drinking starbucks, downloading pirate movies and worrying about the economy

 

[BlueBalls]

You see this is what happens when Anti-abortion legislation becomes law. It happened to the dolphins and now they're killing their children! What does that tell you, huh?

 

[Skyraider22]

It is all spices I see that are ruthless

 

[skechers]

I blame Gangsta Rap. Just take a look at this....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COuJJBibGWM



Poor guy. He'll be scarred for life.

 

[Facetious]

Why on God's lovely earth would a dolphin wanna hurt an innocent ^>

for ? Furthermore, what is a calf doing so nearest, and as much as into, the sea ? :dunno:








J/K, MiniD

That was sadly interesting, the course of nature :o

 

[minidog]

:rofl:

 

[hedonis]

Nature is sometimes, and even often, cruel and unpleasant.

H

 

[bustybbwlover]

some of my favorite baby killing animals are sharks...they do it in the womb to each other
http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/597/saving-baby-eating-sharks-themselves

and then there's hyenas...at least they wait til after birth!...right after
http://special.news.msu.edu/hyena/EstablishingDominance.php?dominance

 

[curiousWAN]

theory;

we fucked up all the world so bad, dolphins got weak and their babies got even weaker if they let that baby live it could harm the next generation with it's fucked up genes?

that's usually why parents kill their babies.

 

[Wainkerr99]

You guys are brutal. :eek: :o :wiggle:

 

[Facetious]

It is all spices I see that are ruthless

That is as specious of a statement as one could make :hatsoff:

 

[Katja]

I guess the marine economy is just as bad in the ocean to. Those dolphines can't afford to raise another child with how scarce food is. lol

 

[gunslingingbird]

They probably weren't trying to kill him, it was probably hazing. It's a popular thing to do to rookies. flylicker

 

[Will E Worm]

They were probably rogues.

Like these lions were. Article

Only the unintelligent murder their own children.

 

[Jagger69]

Why on God's lovely earth would a dolphin wanna hurt an innocent ^>

for ? Furthermore, what is a calf doing so nearest, and as much as into, the sea ? :dunno:

D J/K, MiniD

That was sadly interesting, the course of nature :o

That was my first reaction too, F! I pictured a bunch of dolphins up on a beach somewhere mauling a baby cow.....:1orglaugh

 

[wasslkitty]

They were probably rogues.

Like these lions were. Article

Only the unintelligent murder their own children.

A little ignorance sure goes a long way.

Male lions when taking over a new pride will kill all of the cubs so as to bring the females into heat. Nothing unintelligent about that, they want to pass their genes on.

As far as the dolphins go, this isn't anything new, bottlenose dolphins have been seen doing this sort of thing for years.

 

[Will E Worm]

A little ignorance sure goes a long way.

Male lions when taking over a new pride will kill all of the cubs so as to bring the females into heat. Nothing unintelligent about that, they want to pass their genes on.

As far as the dolphins go, this isn't anything new, bottlenose dolphins have been seen doing this sort of thing for years.

I agree, your ignorance. :hatsoff:

The lions in the article were killing humans.

Just because animals have been seen doing this before doesn't make it right.
I consider them rogues and if I saw them doing this to one of their own, it would be shoot first ask questions last. :ak47:

 

[skechers]

I agree, your ignorance. :hatsoff:

The lions in the article were killing humans.

Just because animals have been seen doing this before doesn't make it right.
I consider them rogues and if I saw them doing this to one of their own, it would be shoot first ask questions last. :ak47:

Doesn't make it right?

Who are you to judge what they do? They don't operate on your system of rules, or live under your bond of government. If they see you killing your own kind, most of them would run the other way.

Lots of people, easy to catch... don't fight back as hard as a water buffalo... and not much natural game around. What you call rogue behavior, they call hunger. And we were in their back yard.


Sure, it comes down to kill or be killed in the end. But, I don't think lions read the bible much.

 

[wasslkitty]

I agree, your ignorance. :hatsoff:

The lions in the article were killing humans.

Just because animals have been seen doing this before doesn't make it right.
I consider them rogues and if I saw them doing this to one of their own, it would be shoot first ask questions last. :ak47:

So let's see if I've got this right:

Humans killing lions is cool, in fact it should be encouraged until lions are extinct.

Lions killing humans is uncool and if one happens upon a lion killing a human, one must immediately drop everything and kill the lion with one's bare hands, and then hunt down and kill every other lion on the face of the earth.

Lions killing other lions is uncool and if one comes upon lions killing other lions you must drop everything and kill the lions and then proceed to kill every other lion on the face of the Earth.

And you call me ignorant.:thefinger:thefinger:thefinger:ban: