Archive for the 'Dolphins' Category

Heather Barrington and her husband Adam flew to Hawaii a month before Heather is due to give birth - an act which is miraculous in itself.

But the couple hope to make their little miracle even MORE miraculous by having dolphins assist their birth!

That's why they made the trip - the couple hopes their little bump pops out while they're in the water with dolphins!

Here's what Heather said:

India has joined Costa Rica, Hungary and Chile as the fourth country to ban captive dolphin and orca shows.

They've enacted the ban because they claim the animals' high level of intelligence grants them status as "non-human persons."

That's ahmayzing! That means they get rights!

India’s Ministry of the Environment and Forests said in a statement:

The Obama administration is considering using seismic air gun blasts to search for oil and gas under the ocean seabed.

The problem with this is that the blasts are 100,000 times louder than a jet engine and they'd occur every 10 seconds for months!!

There's a very good chance that 138,500 whales and dolphins will be injured and maybe even killed by these blasts.

Luckily, they have Ted Danson fighting for them. He said:

Bottlenose dolphins are so crazy smart and cute we want to be friends with one!

We'd swim into the ocean and introduce ourselves, then, the craziest part is, they could introduce themselves to us: by telling us their name!!

Of course we'd only understand it if we spoke dolphinese but it's still a pretty cool fact.

A recent study published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B found that bottlenose dolphins have signature whistles and can use the signature whistles of other dolphins.

How terribly sad is this???

A bottlenose dolpin off of Dana Point, Ca is currently morning over her dead calf, and while she's filled with sorrow, she doesn't plan on letting go of her baby anytime soon, so she's been carrying her tot on her back for several days now.

The footage of the funeral procession was captured by Captain David Anderson while he was hosting a Whale Watching Safari, and even though it was a sad sight, Anderson kept his composure and explained that he had never seen this type of behavior.

In the clip (above), you can see the mama carrying her deceased young, and we must say, the video broke our hearts.

This seems like a total joke but truth is stranger than fiction.

Ukraine's navy apparently lost three dolphins from their training ground in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea.

These military dolphins weren't just trained to find mines or anything, they were possibly armed with knives and guns!!

Whatever happened to Hootie & The Blowfish??

Darius Rucker, their lead singer, popped back into the limelight for a moment recently.

He was spotted down in Orlando, Florida visiting Discovery Cove.

What a magical sounding place! What did he do there??