Why do dolphins protect humans

And in , a fourteen year old boy fell off a boat in the Adriatic Sea and nearly drowned before being rescued by a friendly dolphin.

The marine mammal swam up alongside the boy and pushed him back to the boat from which he had fallen, where the boy's father promptly scooped him up. Far from being merely a modern phenomenon, historical accounts show that dolphins have been saving humans for centuries.

In the s, a pod of. For example, what other animal helps fishers do their job? The intelligence of these cetaceans, highly developed and similar in some aspects to that of humans, places them in a position that no other species have. A quick glance in the media shows a considerable amount of people who claims to have lived an incredible experience, in which a dolphin or a group of dolphins saves them from the danger that the sea involves, even without realizing it.

Do you want to know some? In , a year-old Australian man named Grant Dickson was fishing in northern Queensland along with other people. Hours later the vessel collapsed in the water, and Dickson found himself alone in the middle of the ocean, holding only to the remainings of the boat. He had some wounds bleeding profusely, and with horror, he discovered a group of sharks swimming around him.

However, he watched with amazement how a pod of dolphins began to circle him, scaring away the sharks they might have attacked them by confusing his legs with some prey because of the blood. In the end, Grant Dickson was rescued safe and sound.

In , a group of lifeguards and a young woman from New Zealand were training at sea when a white shark Carcharodon carcharias about 3 meters in length suddenly appeared in front of them. But fortunately soon a small pod of dolphins arrived surrounding the group and the woman.

They waved their tails and created lots of noise to dissuade the shark from attack them until it decided to go away. Todd Endris, a year-old surfer, was practicing his favorite sport on August 28, He could not imagine that moments later a great white shark was going to wallop him and then gave him two severe bites. The dolphins may have even known the fisherman, who was alo an official dolphin warden in his town. Source: Inquirer. Dolphins save surfer from sharks : MSNBC report that in a pod of bottlenose dolphins in California formed a protective ring around a surfer that had just been attacked by a great white shark, allowing him to get to shore and saving his life.

Dolphins save injured diver : The Underwater Times report that in dolphins drew attention to a lone scuba diver, who had been knocked unconscious in the sea near the Channel Islands between England and France. Dolphins save boaters in tsunami : In a scuba diving instructor was in the sea off Thailand with diving crews when the tsunami hit.

He says he was saved because he followed dolphins to safety. Beluga whale saves diver : The Telegraph reports that during a freediving competition in the 'arctic' tank at an aquarium in China, a distressed diver was guided to the surface by a beluga whale called Mila, saving the diver's life.

Then, suddenly, from our stern, a lady in a yellow slicker yelled: "There he is! Oh my god! I saw him! With a whooshing outbreath the dolphin had surfaced, and he was close enough that I could see his distinctive, gnarled face. Fungie looked pugilistic, and disconcertingly huge, with white markings around his chin like an old man's whiskers. He bore noticeable scars: his beak was roughed-up at the tip and his tail was missing a divot.

On his throat he had the dolphin equivalent of deep wrinkles. Still, this was a big, tough bottlenose. I had read that Fungie was 12ft long and weighed lbs, but those numbers are low.

My first thought was that the Most Loyal Animal on the Planet could knock someone's lights out if he wanted to. Watching the dolphin, I felt a palpable glee emanating from him. No wonder the town had claimed him as their own — he was a skilled entertainer. He made perfect aerial arcs, walked on his tail and at one point swam along on his back, clapping his pectoral fins.

Observing him, I found myself wondering if Fungie's past might have included a stint in captivity; if, back in the day, he had lived in a sea pen and somehow escaped.

It had been known to happen, especially during storms. Unfortunately, they don't always know where to go or what to do with their sudden freedom, and so they seek out what they're accustomed to: people. Could Fungie be a refugee? We can only guess. But back at the docks, I decided to share my theory, with the skipper. Flannery, who had been smiling pleasantly enough before I said this, turned and stared at me hard.

A shadow passed fast over his face, darkening it like a thundercloud. Dolly in France and Paquito in the Basque country; Egypt's Olin, who befriended a tribe of Bedouins in the Gulf of Aqaba; Charlie-Bubbles from Newfoundland; Springer from Seattle and Scar from New Zealand; Chas, who loved a particular buoy in the Thames — these and so many other solitary dolphins have made themselves known to us.

And that is usually where the problems begin. The inevitable unruly relationship between a solitary dolphin and the people who want to see him vexes biologists, who fear — correctly — that these encounters will end badly for the dolphin. Their biggest threat, by far, is propellers, which seem as alluring as they are deadly: scientists have heard dolphins playfully mimicking the sounds of motorboat engines underwater, the way children do with their favourite toy trucks.

Wilma and Echo, orphan belugas from Nova Scotia, both died from propeller strikes, but not before charming thousands of people, gliding up to sightseeing boats to let passengers stroke their skin.

Jet, a bottlenose from the Isle of Wight, had his tail lopped off by a propeller and bled to death. Freddie, a bottlenose from Northumberland, whose companion had swallowed a plastic bag and washed up dead on the beach, liked to swim upside down beneath motorised dinghies; once again, it was a propeller that got him. But propellers are only one hazard among many.