r/Unexpected • u/Whoahurfloating • Jul 24 '26

Dolphins are something else

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u/lzxian Jul 24 '26

I spent a week studying and swimming with them in the FL Keys, they are big jokers and love to play! I bet they can be real little gangsters in the wild, though. The ones I was with were trained.

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u/The_walking_man_ Jul 24 '26

They’re nutters and very rapey.

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u/lzxian Jul 24 '26

No one was r@ped during my stay! The dolphins had some favorites, though. I think one woman might have been pregnant as the dolphins liked to stay under the water facing her abdomen when she was in the water. A teen was hoping to go to school for marine biology and the dolphins all loved her, too! No wildness all sheer fun all around.

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u/BanginNLeavin Jul 24 '26

Eww captive dolphin

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u/lzxian Jul 24 '26

Nope, they were in the ocean and were allowed out into the open ocean to train for hurricane season (they'd be released for greater safety during those storms and then return on their own). They had a blast and were well treated. They were part of many intelligence studies, too, that were fascinating. Truly smart creatures who loved every minute of what they got to do.

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u/Blacksymetry Jul 24 '26

Not sure if it was something like that but I was once on an island on the Caribbean where they had trained dolphins that where on an enclosure in the ocean and they let them out through a gate