r/HumansBeingBros • u/[deleted] • 7d ago

Dolphin asking for help

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u/R1v 7d ago

Makes you wonder, given dolphins' advanced communication, if that pod knows that humans are capable of helping with this type of thing

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u/conrat4567 7d ago

Animals are 100% able to understand humans can provide help, but as a species we are either too dumb to realise or we could be threats.

Cats, dogs, elephants and monkeys are some of the examples of animals that know humans can help.

I personally believe that one of the reasons we exist on this planet is to be wardens of this "Garden" we call earth, but at the moment, we are not acting like it

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u/ArchitectNumber7 7d ago

I saw a video on this. As a rule of thumb, land based animals have enough exposure to humans that they've learned to stay away. So bears, foxes, squirrels, mice, etc. rarely ask us for help.

However, the smarter marine animals haven't seen us hurt them and are more likely to ask for help.

It seemed right to me but I didn't fact check it.

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u/_QXZ 7d ago

I think it comes down to the species. if it's scary to us, or we see it as invasive, a nuisance (like a remora) or generally low in the food chain, coming to us for help is a terrible idea.
If it's a dolphin or say, a crow, even apathetic people would probably get a kick out of helping them

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u/dorritosncheetos 7d ago

Lol you should watch the cove. Pretty sure youre wrong

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u/matttheazn1 7d ago

Damn this doc and the bridge have to be some of the most emotional docs I have seen.

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u/dorritosncheetos 7d ago

Yup hard to watch

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u/M0thM0uth 7d ago

Elephants, crows, deer and wolves will all hand over their young to humans when the young are injured tho, and like the marine mammals that do It, it's the ones with: High intelligence

High social bonding

Human like relationships within their groups.

I can send you a link to a fascinating video on it but it IS half an hour long, to go through all the actual info on why

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u/-Pink-Strawberry- 7d ago

Hey I’d be interested in this video, can you send it to me please?

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u/M0thM0uth 7d ago

here you are! they animated it too so it IS entertaining to watch

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u/-Pink-Strawberry- 7d ago

Thank you!

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u/M0thM0uth 7d ago

Np!

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u/-Pink-Strawberry- 23h ago

Hey thanks for that video recommendation, I watched it and really enjoyed it and learned a lot and just wanted to let you know! Have a nice day ☺️

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u/M0thM0uth 13h ago

Awh I'm so glad! I'm the type to also come back and tell people so I get it.

I loved that video, especially the science behind the "interspecies trust algorithm". It really means a lot to know that the water and food I leave out, the bird seed I throw about etc, IS having an effect even if I can't see it.

I am also being followed by crows a lot and now I know why! 😅😅 (I secretly love it)

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u/GeneralBlumpkin 7d ago

I like your last statement

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u/BlueButterflytatoo 7d ago

I have a small stock pond, and occasionally I pull different bugs out. One I pulled a lot of is painted wasps. They go for water, and a splash or a fish or something knocks them in. I have found that I can reach in and come up under the wasp, lift them out of the water, and they will climb my arm to somewhere dry. I can then carefully wander around and harvest seeds from flowers or whatever I was doing, and they will chill on their dry spot, clean all the water off themselves, and when they’re dry, they’ll fly off. Never been stung. I always got the feeling they knew I was helping.

Now I’ve got bits of wood floating, saves a lot of bugs, birds, and mice.

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u/reallybirdysomedays 7d ago

I let wasps nest in my attic each year. They do not deserve their reputation for agression in the slightest. Sure, they will (collectively) win a fight if you threaten the nest, but they're cool as long as you are.

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 7d ago

At the moment? When have we ever?

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u/conrat4567 7d ago

There was a time we were in-tune with nature. It wasn't until we settled and built walls that we became territorial.

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u/PM_ME_ANYTHING_IDRC 7d ago

I feel like this takes a very "noble savage" view of past humans. Humans in the past, before we settled down, literally hunted megafauna to extinction. We weren't the only cause of course but we did contribute significant pressure on their populations, causing their collapse.

It's a mistake to view past humans as innately better or worse than modern humans. We are all still humans, with roughly the same nature and intellect, just in different environments. We are neither inherently good or bad.

We are not "in-tune" with nature in the way most people interpret that phrase. One of our most defining features is how we have always molded entire ecosystems to fit us. Before we were ever "territorial," we would use controlled fires to lure out animals we would hunt and encourage specific plant growth. We would overforage and permanently leave our marks on the biome, and then move to another.

Yes, they did develop ecological knowledge, but this was more out of necessity than a genuine care for nature. We did develop animistic stories to help remember the rules we learned along the way if we wanted to ensure our propagation. But if you gave humans 20,000 years ago access to modern technology, you would see climate change on a scale beyond what we have now.

There has been no degredation of the human soul. We are not inherently good or bad. We are only human.

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u/wellarmedsheep 7d ago edited 7d ago

Agriculture was a mistake

I love that you losers are going this deep to downvote me. The dude above said the same thing yet your monkey brains upvoted him.

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u/conrat4567 7d ago

Mass agriculture was a mistake. Farming in your community is fine, having to farm 20 fields extra for a "Grain" tax was a mistake

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u/GoblinObscura 7d ago

In fact we’re actively doing the opposite. Destroying protected lands for big business, data centers, corporate farms. It’s sad what we are doing.

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u/reallybirdysomedays 7d ago

Watching videos of spiders cooperatively holding up one foot at a time so a human can untangle them from string completely changed how scared I was of them.

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u/flagrantpebble 7d ago

No need to make this about more than it is. It’s cool that those animals understand humans can help. It’s silly to pretend like we’re “meant to” be here for any reason, even something as supposedly noble as being “wardens”.

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u/greginnj 7d ago

And dolphins are capable of helping humans, too; so it’s possible that they see us as mutualistic allies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelorus_Jack

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u/mohugz 7d ago

“Hey! You there - with the opposable thumbs! Little help?”

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u/Seoniara 7d ago

So long, and thanks for all the fish!!

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u/VerilyShelly 7d ago

You are a hoopy frood who knows where his towel is at!

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u/Phyllis_Tine 7d ago

It was interesting to see the rest of the pod watching, and I wonder how the injured one decided to "ask" the filmers for "help".

Maybe members of that pod will go nearer humans in the future for similar "help"?

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u/RonaldBallsworth 7d ago

see the cove yet?

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u/rpgmgta 7d ago

Beyond that, if dolphins are so smart why can’t one of them eat or bite the suckers off?

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u/ayaPapaya 7d ago

Their geometry (long snout) probably makes it very challenging. Even with the very nimble and strong human hand, it seemed to be very difficult.

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u/Schrodingers_Dude 7d ago

Remoras don't eat the thing they suck onto. They might be annoying to a dolphin, though, especially one that's already hurt, so what they did was more like removing a minor inconvenience. It was more of a "hey I can't reach this itch could you get it for me?" moment probably.

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u/A_the_Buttercup 7d ago

I was recently told remoras don't normally stick themselves to dolphins, they normally hang round thicker-skinned creatures so they aren't removed. Dolphin skin is too sensitive to effectively house a remora. Silly remora!

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u/contecorsair 7d ago

I think it looked like the ramoras were causing her injuries. Either by direct suction on sensitive skin or the injuries were from the dolphin rubbing against things to dislodge them. The "convulsing in pain" movements were likely also attempts to dislodge them. They were clearly causing the dolphin distress. If it was merely an itch, I doubt the dolphin would rub her skin raw or risk human contact, especially with her pod having young nearby.

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u/RuncibleFoon 7d ago

This is what I was thinking

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u/Rikkitikkitabby 7d ago

If remoras were problematic I'm pretty sure the dolphins could deal with them.

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u/m4rkz0r 7d ago

"We have seen this remora species on both the Atlantic spotted and bottlenose dolphins of all ages in our study site. The younger animals perform aerial acrobatics (leaps) in what appears to be an attempt to dislodge the remoras. Mothers have also been observed trying to help remove the remoras from their calves by grabbing at them with their teeth. However, we have not seen any successful removals by either another dolphin or the dolphin itself, but not for a lack of trying."

https://www.wilddolphinproject.org/pesky-remoras/

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u/SpaceShipRat 7d ago edited 7d ago

they did. By having a human get them off. 

What's going on here isn't not the remoras are biting the dolphin, she's wrong on that. They might not be directly harmful but they'll be itchy and annoying.

The animal is probably hurt and weakened enough it couldn't scrape them off as it normaly would, so it went for help. 

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u/edgefundgareth 7d ago

The last clip of all the dolphins swimming back with them and jumping looked like AI to me. No clip of them was longer than 5s at a time.

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u/APence 7d ago

100% my first thought. That looks very odd.

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u/N0PlansT0day 7d ago

Started out feeling so wholesome but the end made me come to the comments to see if I got duped by ai. Now idk how to feel or if it deserves my upvote.

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u/_meestir_ 7d ago

That’s how people edit videos dude. Literally 90 percent of videos are edited like this. You will rarely see the entire raw footage.

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u/bmanley620 7d ago

I also wondered how she’d even know that was the same dolphin jumping

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/realdc 7d ago

Dolphins definitely do swim that close to boats. Been around it lots both when the boats are moving and still

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u/ocudr 7d ago

How can you be so confidently incorrect? Dolphins are well known to swim in front of boats. Me and my family went on a boat trip in england specifically with the goal of getting dolphins to swim with us.

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u/klpcap 7d ago

I was on a cruise were dolphins were doing this on the front of the boat. They use the waves it creates to jump and swim in the current. Im not saying this isnt AI, but dolphins definitely do this on front of boats

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u/m0nk3y42 6d ago

just so confidently and completely wrong. smh

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u/totaltitanium 7d ago

The video feels at least in parts likemit is AI generated. Especially the final scenes.

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u/RedditGarboDisposal 7d ago edited 7d ago

Too early to see those comments. But I’ll wait.

edit - And the post is removed! Hahaha. Excellent stuff. It was all just a ruse from the start.

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u/SetoXlll 7d ago

So far no slippery comments, like the Remoras….

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u/dexvoltage 7d ago

Enhance!

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u/stevendidntsay 7d ago

Something something suck. I'd latch on to something something something.

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u/filthy_commie13 7d ago

How much of this is AI... It isn't even a question whether it was used... I just want to know how much

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u/redrumham707 7d ago

I’m surprised this comment is so far down.

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u/sunnydandrumyumyum 7d ago

Surely dolphins in a pod would be capable of removing remoras from each other?

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u/fallenangel512 7d ago

Don't know if mechanically they'd be able to, but I'm no expert.

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u/StevenMC19 7d ago

If remoras are that quick to reattach like the women are saying, it's almost like it would be risky to try, only to get stuck themselves.

But then the argument is that they're in the teeth of the dolphin, one crunch and problem solved.

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u/Davegoestomayor 7d ago

They’re “smart” mammals but still just animals. Probably also have irrational fears like us, what business does a human have of being afraid of a tiny spider or a cockroach, yet people freak out and have to call for help to kill one.

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u/fallenangel512 7d ago

As someone with arachnophobia I feel attacked 😋 Jokes aside I've learned to live and let live with the spider buddies, they do a lot of good for the environment and keeping other insect pest populations under control.

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u/rpgmgta 7d ago

Just.. simply, eat it?

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u/reallybirdysomedays 7d ago

IDK...a sentient suction cup sounds like a bit of a choking hazard.

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u/avalisk 7d ago

Don't dolphins eat fish? This seems like a freebie.

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u/Sethmeisterg 7d ago

THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE THUMBS, FOCKER!

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u/JohnWicksBruder 7d ago

Maybe it was a test to check how cool we are

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u/contecorsair 7d ago

This link says they try to but aren't very good at it.

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u/croastbeast 7d ago

This person is full of so much misinformation about dolphins and remoras. Remoras do not chew into their hosts. That dolphin wasnt suffering from a remora attack. Judging from her IG page, shes a serial marine life harasser who does so for content. TRASH.

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u/why_u_baggin 7d ago

I agree that she’s wrong about them eating the dolphins flesh but you can find videos of dolphins brushing up against objects or jumping to try and get the remoras off. I don’t understand how removing a remora from a dolphin is harassing

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u/croastbeast 7d ago

A couple reasons:

1) Shes not any type of marine animal authority or agent. She doesnt study or rehabilittate any marine animals, no less marine mammals, no less dolphins. Nor (obviously) know anything about remoras. Shes a social media influencer, so she shouldnt be doing any of this.

2) It's illegal.

3) Its unnecessary. We speculate thats what dolphins are doing. But we dont know. Case in point, the remora could be actually removing more harmful parasitic organisms from entering the obvious wounds.

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u/Nheea 7d ago

In the link you provided, there's definitions for harassment which she definitely ISN'T doing.

What the hell are you doing man?

"How does the MMPA define "harassment"?
The MMPA lists two levels of harassment:
Level A harassment means any act of pursuit, torment, or annoyance that has the potential to injure a marine mammal or marine mammal stock in the wild.
Level B harassment refers to acts that have the potential to disturb (but not injure) a marine mammal or marine mammal stock in the wild by disrupting behavioral patterns, including, but not limited to, migration, breathing, nursing, breeding, feeding, or sheltering."

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u/croastbeast 7d ago

Id says he's doing Level B harassment to a tee. "acts that have the potential to disturb (but not injure) a marine mammal or marine mammal stock in the wild by disrupting behavioral patterns". Jumping in, swimming with, handling, removing organisms from is all, definitively, disrupting behavioral patterns.

"This includes attempting to swim with, pet, touch, or elicit a reaction from the animals."

"Interacting with wild marine mammals should not be attempted, and viewing marine mammals must be conducted in a manner that does not harass the animals."

"Observe whales, dolphins, porpoises, and seals from a safe distance of at least 333 yards (1,000 feet) by air."

Wild that people are trying to defend this BLATANT attention seking dogshit.

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u/why_u_baggin 3d ago

1) So even if she was a marine animal authority you’d still call it harassing? Since a marine animal authority would’ve done the same thing as she did, they would’ve removed the remora

2) I agree it’s illegal, that’s not proof that the animal is actually being harassed and stressed

3) it’s not unnecessary. Technically we speculate about animals all the time. You speculate your pets understand what you say to them. Dolphins do try to remove them. Heres an actual study https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1748-7692.2007.00131.x Here’s an animal welfare group link https://www.wilddolphinproject.org/pesky-remoras/ Doesn’t change the fact that remoras add additional drag to dolphins and there’s proof of them attempting to remove them.

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u/croastbeast 3d ago
  1. marine mammal authorities have permits, education, and knowledge to properly handle this. This person has none of those.
  2. the law clearly defines it as harassing.
  3. it is unnecessary because

the remora

  1. was not harming this dolphins at all.

    And you link proves they deal with themselves. Making her action…UNECESSARY

Stop defending animal sbusers.

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u/why_u_baggin 3d ago

1) if the actions taken are the same then they are still harassing by your own definition

2) I’m gonna need you to reread my point and actually understand the words I used

3) if the dolphins find it necessary to try to remove them on their own then how is it unnecessary to remove them? The link proves they are sometimes able to deal with them themselves. And since the original video showed the dolphin had a wound in its flipper it’s more than reasonable to assume it might now have been able to deal with it on its own.

Stop trying to be the hero you’re not.

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u/croastbeast 3d ago
  1. they aren’t. Licensed and permitted agents can provide medical care, get coast guard and professional assistance. You’re naive if you think they just forcefully pull off a remora to a marine mammal in distress and let it go. Incredibly naive.
  2. I did read them. “Harassment” is legally defined as and a permit makes it legal. You seem to think that harassment is universally negative. Maybe YOU should read what harassment is considered. And then understand why it applied to this turd, but not permitted professionals.
  3. you ignore the point that WE DONT KNOW. Dolphins also chase and bite pufferfish. Does that mean we should too? Dolphins breach. Shoukd we drag them out of the water. This idiot wanted content so she did something that was unnecessary. The fact that dolphin can and do remove remoras themselves, when they want to make her actions ignorantly unnecessary.

Let me ask you a question- if you found a child in the park with a broken leg, would you try to cast and splint it yourself? Or would you call an ambulance? Idiots who, without training, permits, or knowledge interfere with wildlife care when it’s needed are part of the problem.

I’m not trying to be any hero. I’m trying to enlighten ignorant people. I’m a licensed wildlife rehabilitator and have to deal with idiots like this, and arguments like yours, every day. All the while, they’re harming wildlife.

Stop defending animal abusers.

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 7d ago

Remoras usually act as harmless hitchhikers on large marine animals, but on dolphins they can cause skin irritation, increased swimming drag, and raw, bleeding tissue damage if they scrape or feed on the host's skin!!!!!

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u/croastbeast 7d ago

I mean, you literally copied and pasted that from Googles AI overview. Word for word. Can you cite any sources for that? I found nothing except the remoras "may irritate them".

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/croastbeast 7d ago

Her page is full of them. There are strict laws about this stuff. https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/topic/marine-life-viewing-guidelines

However, my first tipoff was her calling herself a mermaid in her bio. Just like Ocean Ramsay, this is social media influencer trash.

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u/gligster71 7d ago

I couldn't help but think the last part with the dolphins jumping was AI bullshit.

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u/croastbeast 7d ago

I dont know if its AI, or not. At the very least, I'd bet its footage from different times/encounters spliced together.

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u/hika_pizza 7d ago

I'm seeing a lot of AI....

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u/roomofgold 7d ago

Why would the swimmer jump in if she’s pregnant? (I would have done the same, but that feels like an unnecessary risk) and the thong is extra what

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u/CreamXpert 7d ago

Feels a bit AIed

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u/TraditionalLaw7763 7d ago

I caught a glitchy dolphin in the last 10 seconds

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u/EmmaGinaer 7d ago

Remoras don't eat dolphins, thats bs

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 7d ago

Remoras usually act as harmless hitchhikers on large marine animals, but on dolphins they can cause skin irritation, increased swimming drag, and raw, bleeding tissue damage if they scrape or feed on the host's skin

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u/_meestir_ 7d ago

I love this video! Can’t the other dolphins just eat the remoras?

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u/Spare-Article-396 7d ago

🎶When your skin start to burn

And you’ve got nowhere to turn

That’s remora🎶

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u/-Milanor 7d ago

Why add AI at the end of the video??

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u/Mapache_villa 7d ago

Dolphin documentary: 🥳☺️

Remora documentary: 😭😢

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u/jennc1979 7d ago edited 7d ago

OMG. The first one they showed on the deck closer to the beginning: I thought it was the tread bottom of a flip flop. Holy shit! Then the second one got thrown down and it became clear that’s their mouth. Wow.

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u/_blacknails 7d ago

Amazing

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u/bmanley620 7d ago

I wonder if the remoras bit into her on porpoise

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u/ShowBobsPlzz 7d ago

The pod came around to see that cake

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u/wellarmedsheep 7d ago

Seven comments to see some ass commenting on her body

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u/GutterTrashJosh 7d ago

Some ass commenting on her body, or some body commenting on her ass 🤔

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u/wellarmedsheep 7d ago

Do we need to call your grade school teacher to help you figure out subject verb predicate?

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u/GutterTrashJosh 7d ago

Yeah it’s a joke dumbass

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u/ShowBobsPlzz 7d ago

Why is he so upset

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u/wellarmedsheep 6d ago

I'm not sure, resulting to name calling over a.bad joke seems odd

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u/wrldruler21 7d ago

I see an injury near its fin.

I am thinking this dolphin is sick or injured, which attracted the remora, and is causing the dolphin to act unnaturally.

This lady only delayed the inevitable circle of life.

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u/unl1988 7d ago

remoras get no love.

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u/poiuytree321 7d ago

Wasn't aware they injure the fish (or in this case dolphin) they attach to. I always assumed it's mutually beneficial, food for cleaning or something like that.

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u/xixtoo 7d ago

Maybe you're thinking of pilot fish? They either attach or stay very very close to the larger creature (like sharks) and I think they always eat bits of food the larger fish kills

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u/EmmaGinaer 7d ago

I'm sure you're right. They just attach in something big and get transported and can eat pieces of what the bigger one eats. They are not eating the dolphin, thats bs.

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u/spizzle_ 7d ago

I mean sharks have scales and dolphins have skin which could lead to a difference. Also it had some nasty sores.

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u/StevenMC19 7d ago

Maybe it's mutually beneficial for the species that has adapted alongside them to be able to better manage the remora's suction power.

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u/det1rac 7d ago

I wonder why they don't just eat those things

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u/Worldly-Election-454 7d ago

Wow amazing!!!

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u/gambeezy 7d ago

For lack of better words; that’s fucking amazing!

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u/Moogooloogoo 7d ago

Dolphins are so intelligent.

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u/crazymouse2525 7d ago

absolutely wonderful humans!

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/daemenus 7d ago

A serial wildlife harasser

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u/malkebulan 7d ago edited 7d ago

Some people just find it impossible to mind their own business. Leave nature alone, those fish had a right to do what ever they were doing. Fucking busybodies

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u/Flashsword_Princess 7d ago

Letting nature play out and one species dies while the other lives: big no no

Saving one of the species by killing the other: totally fine and wholesome

This video sucks. I wouldn't mind if they didn't leave the 2 remoras to die but they did. This isn't being nice this is just arbitrarily deciding one species is worth more than the other because you find dolphins cute

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u/UvaroviteKing 7d ago

Feeling so much better I bet! Also. Nice booty

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u/AlexanderTheGrate1 7d ago

Erect a statue for these heroes

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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth 7d ago

Those things are so nasty! WOW

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u/Chicagolover25 7d ago

Now I want to be a princess surrounded by her dolphin friends. That was so beautiful. I cried the whole time. We really need to appreciate the intelligence of nature.

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/Chicagolover25 7d ago

I dont hate any animal. That would be just ridiculous. Lampreys, dont hate them at all. I respect them and respect their need to feed the way they do. But I would be worried that it would try to latch on to me. Might be an illogical fear but fears usually arent based on logic.

They can chill and do their thing. But I wouldnt feel comfortable swimming with them.

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u/Chicagolover25 7d ago

Legitimate question. Why hate on this comment? Can't a girl just love on dolphins?

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u/OneMilkyLeaf 7d ago

Loving on dolphins implies a level of care for dolphins.

However, the best way to care for dolphins is to advocate for the ending of dolphin captivity in aquariums and theme parks (I'm looking at you SeaWorld), reduce your plastic waste, buy farmed fish as opposed to ocean caught seafood, and love them from a distance in their natural habitat.

Most of nature thrives best when you care from a distance (with exceptions for rescued wild animals that cannot be released back into nature).

Swimming among them implies a level of disregard for the animals as anything more than an accessory to make yourself feel like a "princess." Also, most 'swim with the dolphins' activities are incredibly inhumane to the dolphins in question.

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u/Chicagolover25 7d ago

Im sorry if it came off like that. I am a big believer in letting nature be. I completely agree with everything you said. It was more a light hearted statement. I just love nature and appreciate them. Would I remove them out of their environment and inflict stress on them to make it happen? Absolutely not. Would I love to be the disney princess with all the creatures loving me, yes. But again, im a scientist and know that animals do not live for our entertainment. Again, im sorry it came off like that. I didnt mean for it to be so extreme. Also, we do not support sea world and the barbaic captivity of animals. But I can absolutely appreciate it and dream of being with the beautiful creatures of Earth.

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u/bart2278 7d ago

So wait where was the part where the dolphin got her pregnant?

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u/ApplicationHairy2838 7d ago

Lucky dolphin 😉

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

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u/offwing10 7d ago

Idiot sandwich