Dolphins: From Navy Recruits to Artists
Humans have had a long fascination with dolphins. Their intelligence has been both studied and put to work. We all know about various marine shows at theme parks, but did you know that the US Navy employed dolphins during WWII for particular missions. I believe they also have some dolphins among their ranks to this very day. Below, is a “dolphin badge” that was connected with service on a submarine. Of course, this was for the people. Dolphins were never presented with such insignia as they had no use for it.
Recently, an interesting observation was made about the dolphins at Sea World’s dolphin cove. Have you seen the video about Dolphin Bubbles? It is certainly not your typical exercise of dolphins pressing buttons underwater. This is a behavior that they originated themselves. The phenomena was featured on ABC’s World News with Charles Gibson recently.
It is interesting to note that it appears that the females are more interested in playing with bubbles than the males are. Maybe the females are more detail oriented, or maybe it is just a coincidence and has more to do with the individuality of the dolphins, and the majority being female is just an accident.
The dolphins now have their very own website at http://dolphinbubbles.com. Sea World Orlando has made the videos available to be watched all around the world. Of course, this will probably inspire many people to come and see this for themselves. I wonder, as intelligent as they are, if the dolphins will notice a big surge in folks looking at them through their underwater observatory and will decide to “change it up” and do something different just to mess with people. The other question I have is if one dolphin did it by accident and taught others, or if this is something dolphins do naturally and humans are just noticing now? I guess we won’t know that for awhile, but maybe we should not analyze it and just enjoy the show.
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