I like stingrays. They seem to enjoy pettings.
Random Thoughts From Out of Nowhere
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those bastards killed steve irwin i say we let them be it's what steve would have wanted
There's an aquarium near us that has a tank of rays you can feed and pet. Also some small sand sharks.
my middle school got banned from the miami seaquarium lol
i wasn't the reason why we got banned, i'm a socially awkward dorkus who just wanted to see the fish and had to survive on like a goddamn bag of chips and a soda because my grandpa only gave me a few bucks for lunch even tho THIS WAS AN AQUARIUM all the actual food was expensive as all hell
it was the dipshit kids who humped the dolphin statue
i wasn't the reason why we got banned, i'm a socially awkward dorkus who just wanted to see the fish and had to survive on like a goddamn bag of chips and a soda because my grandpa only gave me a few bucks for lunch even tho THIS WAS AN AQUARIUM all the actual food was expensive as all hell
it was the dipshit kids who humped the dolphin statue
Sounds a bit excessive. I mean, if you sank a human statue into the dolphin enclosure they would probably hump it as well.
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I wonder if scientists will tell us when they figure out dolphin language, or if they'll hear what dolphins talk about and decide to burn the notes and forget the whole project.
The dolphins don’t leave anybody who understands them alive
OK I'm just gonna say it.
I genuinely hate (OK 'strongly dislike') when people try to apply human morals to WILD ANIMALS as if they operate under these same morals or even have the ability to understand the concepts of 'good' and 'evil', even if they are doing it as a joke.
Are there reports of dolphins doing things we would consider 'evil', like ganging up on female dolphins and raping them? Or groups of dolphins killing harbour porpoises for seemingly no reason other than to kill them? Yes, there is no dispute about this.
But dolphins are also very well-known for protecting and saving humans, in Greek mythology they were viewed as being helpers of humanity. And it's pretty easy to find stories of dolphins helping injured divers or swimmers get back to shore or even protect them from a potential shark attack. Hell back in 2018, a group of dolphins protected a mother humpback male and her calf from a group of male humpbacks that wanted to mate with her.
And really most of the 'evil' things people love to bring up that dolphins do aren't even anything unique to dolphins. Tons of animal species are known to engage in coercive mating (what we would call rape), cannibalization, or even infanticide. But would you blanketly label these animals as all being 'evil'? No, because they don't have the same morals as humans do and, for many animals, it's doubtful that they have a concept of 'morals' at all.
Personally I think this whole thing just comes from how we view dolphins (and other animals we deem as being 'evil'). Humans generally view dolphins as being 'cute' and when we learn that these (again, for emphasis) WILD animals sometimes engage in behavior that we would consider to be abhorrent, we immediately make the assumption that their 'cuteness' was just a front for their 'secretly sinister and evil nature'. But this is ignoring the fact that dolphins didn't evolve to be cute, that's just what they ended up looking like over tens of millions of years of evolution. It's a complete coincidence that the modern appearance of dolphins matches the general human concept of 'cuteness' and eating up all the rhetoric about the 'cute' dolphins can make it easy for people to forget that they have just as much capacity for being dangerous as 'ugly' animals and both deserve the same respect during potential interactions.
Also there are like 40 species of dolphin and not all of them are known to engage in these 'evil' behaviors like coercive mating or porpoise killing (the latter of which isn't even common and IIRC was just the local population of bottlenose dolphins near Aberdeen, Scotland that were doing it. There's no evidence that bottlenose dolphins, or even dolphins as a whole, regularly engage in the killing of porpoises)
So were cool with sea otters now?
No. Those blubbery whisker-faced bastards are intelligent enough to know what they did.
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New Yorkers are so ******* funny like they have to hype up shit that literally every city or even decently-sized town has as if it's completely unique to NYC and also the greatest thing in the world.
They think walking there is such a big deal that they have to announce it
"Superman's glasses are the worst disguise ever"
"Hold my beer bub"
"Hold my beer bub"
Amateurs.
Multiple explosions in my neighborhood. They looked like they were only one house away, diagonally. I still have electricity.
update #1: Another one, from a different direction this time. I still haven't figured out what's going on. I also heard some ominous tapping on my front door but that was just beetles attracted to the light.
update #1: Another one, from a different direction this time. I still haven't figured out what's going on. I also heard some ominous tapping on my front door but that was just beetles attracted to the light.
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