Yet Improving

#it fucks me up that this dolphin is obviously not trying very hard#is there some kind of fucking Physics happening here? i don't know of any

He's riding the bow wave! The boat, moving forward, also pushes quite a bit of water forward. The dolphin is letting the boat push him with the water, to save on the effort of swimming. It's like birds that fly in a V formation to take advantage of the wings of the bird ahead of them.

That dolphin is having such a good day that I stop and watch him every time this comes around. Imagine how it must feel, basking in the rush of water, effortlessly carried forward.

thinkpads and glocks are the whales and dolphins of engineering

evolved convergently but one is a peaceful filter feeder and the other is a being of pure violence

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Its weird for me to think that dolphins existed at the same time as queens and knights and shit like that. I feel like dolphins were invented in the 80s by crystal shops to sell porcelain statues to divorced women

Dolphins doing cartwheels with an aquarium guest.

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I'm loving this new trend of people going to zoos and participating in animal enrichment. We use to observe large exotic animals for our entertainment, but the fact is that we are now trying to make ourselves equally as entertaining for them. It's interactive, completely parpicipatory and I would argue that eventually someone's gonna come up with something new enough that it expland ethologists understanding about how some animals think, problem solve, communicate and feel and I think its fantastic.

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Omg the two playing just cracks me up!

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Dolphins in False Bay, South Africa

*slams reblog*

Klezmer dolphins.

I don’t know that I’ve reblogged anything faster in my entire tumblr life.  

The one dancing and flailing at the end

Mama dolphins sing to their babies in the womb. Dolphins use signature whistles to identify themselves, and expecting mothers have been observed performing a new whistle close to the time of birth and for two weeks after. Researchers think it may be a form of imprinting, which could explain why other nearby dolphins grow quieter during this time. Source

are you telling me that dolphins name their children