By:Angel

I feel like I have to establish some claim to dolphin related knowledge, so I’m going to just get this out of the way: I’m a marine biology major at an VERY respected marine-centered university.

Now that that’s out of the way, the focus of my education matters far less than a little common sense. The animal in question is a 12-foot long, 600 pound carnivore. They are big, they are strong, and they can be very aggressive. These are animals that, on MANY occasions, have been witnessed ganging up on and beating harbor porpoises to death. These porpoises are about the same size as a preteen child or petite woman.

Dolphins should be treated with caution as much as any other dangerous animal. They can and do attack without provocation and can seriously injure or kill a human being with minimal effort.

Get those childhood fantasies about Flipper out of your head, people. These are wild animals.

I’m sure you will understand that, after discovering this disturbing fact about myself, I was a bit vexed and more than a little out of sorts. I lashed out at the first being to present himself; and that being was this poor, unfortunate boy.

After reading all of the responses to the original post, I am troubled over the tendency of some human beings to take the side of a wild animal over that of a small boy. Perhaps, in an ideological sense, you are as cannibalistic as I have so recently found myself to be. Very troubling indeed!

I have also discovered, during the most casual perusal of your responses, that most of you are functionally illiterate and a great many of you are totally unfamiliar with the elementary premises of logic~ Read some Aristotle people! Without any proof whatsoever you automatically assume that the child provoked me and, once the meme was established, you mindlessly ran with it. I find you are all cretins of the first order of magnitude.

Judging by the pure vacuity of the majority of your posts, especially the misspelled diatribes of those of you pretending to some form of higher education (Marine biologist indeed! You couldn’t spell your way out of a wet paper bag much less make it to university…) the Human race is not long for this world. May God have mercy on your boorish souls, for when we dolphins evolve and develope opposable thumbs, we most assuredly will have none!

DICK HEAD

I figured, that some people just don’t put their hand in the dolphin’s mouth; the dolphins come up to THEM and kinda greet them. So to all you SeaWorld Dolphin Cove trainers: It’s not always the people, it sometimes is the dolphin who just happens to like special people. Don’t come up with the “Don’t put your hand in the Dolphin’s mouth, for your own safety.” stuff. Guys who happen to know what they’re doing surely won’t sue you. They like to interact and play with the dolphins and obviously some dolphins like to play with them. Tone it down a bit and don’t be so sensitive. I myself am working for my company’s customer service; and I tell you: Never ever make your customer mad or he’ll never come back again. Be nice to your customers.