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Dolphins save surfer from becoming shark’s bait
today.msnbc.com ^ | Nov. 8, 2007 | Mike Celizic

Posted on 11/08/2007 1:54:21 PM PST by Nachum

Surfer Todd Endris needed a miracle. The shark — a monster great white that came out of nowhere — had hit him three times, peeling the skin off his back and mauling his right leg to the bone.

That’s when a pod of bottlenose dolphins intervened, forming a protective ring around Endris, allowing him to get to shore, where quick first aid provided by a friend saved his life.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: dolphins; rescue; save; shark; sharks; surfer
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To: EveningStar
They call him Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning...

 

 

41 posted on 11/08/2007 3:27:43 PM PST by Fintan
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To: Skywalk
It could be a more rudimentary form of our own recognition of intelligence in other species

They treat humans like people. We should do the same for them since they are people too.

42 posted on 11/08/2007 3:48:03 PM PST by Solitar ("My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them." -- Barry Goldwater)
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To: Nachum

coool!!


43 posted on 11/08/2007 4:11:46 PM PST by RDTF ("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
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To: shield

“cause massive eternal damage to a shark.”

Thanks so much for the “eternal” laughter you just provided - I know it will be endless and therefore I can’t continue and must leave my computer now.

I’m sure it was just a typo (i spel foneticly somtimes myself). But thanks, regardless. Nite.

P.S. You get the Wuli chuckle of the day award.


44 posted on 11/08/2007 4:46:37 PM PST by Wuli
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To: Jedi Master Pikachu
a). Personally don't consider animals, including dolphins to be fully sentient.

Sentience isn't something that comes in grades like full, half empty, complete or partial.

sentient

Main Entry: sen·tient
Pronunciation: \ˈsen(t)-sh(ē-)ənt, ˈsen-tē-ənt\
Function: adjective
Etymology: Latin sentient-, sentiens, present participle of
sentire to perceive, feel
Date: 1632
1 : responsive to or conscious of sense impressions (sentient beings) 2 : aware
3 : finely sensitive in perception or feeling

I'd say a dolphin fits any of those description.

45 posted on 11/08/2007 4:47:41 PM PST by TigersEye (Oh, why can't a woman be more like a man?)
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To: Our man in washington
Nobody else has gotten to do that this year

I feel for you, pal. It also seems that there is a chance the perfect record may fall this year as well. Hang in there. Long-suffering Saints fan here...:-) Who Dat!

46 posted on 11/08/2007 4:51:05 PM PST by Types_with_Fist (I'm on FReep so often that when I read an article at another site I scroll down for the comments.)
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To: in hoc signo vinces
Dolphins are probably smarter than we know...

I'll give them that credit when they figure out how to stay out of fishing nets........

47 posted on 11/08/2007 4:53:01 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (I could be Agent "HT")
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To: TigersEye

I don’t know how sentient/intelligent dolphins are, but God once used a jack*- the animal to literally talk to a man, as a warning!!!


48 posted on 11/08/2007 5:48:12 PM PST by JSDude1 (When a liberal represents the Presidential Nominee for the Republicans; THEY'RE TOAST)
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To: JSDude1
I don’t know how sentient/intelligent dolphins are...

Sentience and intelligence are two different things. I'm sure you are able to determine whether dolphins fit the three definitions of sentience listed above.

49 posted on 11/08/2007 7:11:59 PM PST by TigersEye (Oh, why can't a woman be more like a man?)
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To: MHGinTN

guardian Angels can come into Dolphins for a short stint

I have sometimes suspected this about dogs.


50 posted on 11/08/2007 7:22:46 PM PST by Fred Hayek (Liberalism is a mental disorder)
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To: TigersEye

Frankly I don’t care; and I don’t equate them as ‘equal with human beings’, but I do believe we shouldn’t disreguard their life willy nilly...

Especially when there are other sources of food.


51 posted on 11/08/2007 8:10:42 PM PST by JSDude1 (When a liberal represents the Presidential Nominee for the Republicans; THEY'RE TOAST)
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To: Nachum

I love stories like this.


52 posted on 11/08/2007 8:11:23 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard; TigersEye
I do too & when we had a charter fishing boat watching the dolphins was so much fun.
53 posted on 11/08/2007 8:53:45 PM PST by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslim's demands)
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To: pandoraou812

I remember once when I was a teenager we (me and a friend) walked/swam WAY out into the ocean at Surf City. It was a rare “two sandbar” day - - once you got all the way out to the first sandbar there was a second sandbar another 50 yards out, with waves breaking into it from the other side. (I hope you followed that.)

Anyway, we were out past that second sandbar, bobbing in the waves waiting for a wave to ride when a school of dolphins (maybe porpoises) went by us so close we could have reached out and touched them (if we weren’t peeing ourselves).

There was something cool about being in their “house” under completely natural circumstances.


54 posted on 11/08/2007 9:49:22 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Lancey Howard
That must have been really cool!

We used to get whales under the boat & people would get all scared. Whales always amaze me too. We would be like 150 miles out & the whales would just act like we weren’t even there. Marlins jumping are awesome & beautiful too. I didn’t mind the blue fishing & tuna fishing. But I started to worry about over killing sharks. We would get guys out there that couldn’t eat a blue shark etc but felt the only good shark is a dead shark. So I would get into fights. Finally I said on our contract if its not going to be eaten we believe in catch & release. The fishing laws here really put us out of business with the limits on fish. Well it was fun most of the time while it lasted. Boats are holes in the water & we have a small one now for crabbing.

55 posted on 11/08/2007 9:57:19 PM PST by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslim's demands)
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To: JSDude1
...and I don’t equate them as ‘equal with human beings’...

That would be stupid.

56 posted on 11/08/2007 10:11:04 PM PST by TigersEye (Oh, why can't a woman be more like a man?)
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