NOW that is a cool story...
Aboard a destroyer, I always felt better when dolphins were around our ship.
Name of whale? Quasimodo, of course.
Whale sharks are supposedly filter feeders and “pose no threat to humans”...though VERY large for a fish.
I got teary-eyed listening to her describe their reunion! Absolutely incredible! Thank you for posting!
Wonderful story. Many thanks.
I mean a humpback whale brain is three to five times as large as a humans with similar cellular complexity. 10-14lbs vs 3 draw from that what you will. These animals communicate across thousands of miles and speak several different dialects to each other. That also are some of the few animals to pass the self awareness test same for orcas and dolphins who have similar brain masses.
Needed to read something like this today. What a great story, all the way around. While paling in comparison, my personal story is that of once being thoroughly checked out by a dolphin who I think wanted to play. Came up along side me, looked a me, shot off, circled around, and did it again. Once he figured I couldn’t swim any faster, he just flicked his tail a few times and vanished.
In Canada, they’d just kill the whale.
I think whales in general HATE sharks and see them as a natural enemy.
I don’t think this humpback had any sympathy for the human, I think it was just looking to deny the shark a meal.
To the human, of course, that’s a difference without a distinction but it reeks of anthropomorphization to conjecture that the animal’s overarching concern was her “protection.”
Awww, it made me want to blubber and it wasn’t fishy at all......
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