Cetacean on Cetacean violence.

Scientists who autopsy cetaceans that wash up dead on British beaches have come to a grim conclusion: some are being killed by Bottlenose Dolphins.

Dead Porpoises and other cetacean species are washing up on British beaches. According to reports by the people who record these sort of things, the majority of the Porpoises have died due to physical trauma--caused by Bottlenose Dolphins. Some believe that Dolphins are killing other species because of food competition for declining fish stocks. But not all the species murdered by Bottlenose Dolphins share the same diet. There is another, more chilling hypothesis.

"We can't state confidently that the killings are tied to declining fish stocks," says dolphin expert Nick Tregenza, who advises the Marine Strandings Network in Cornwall. His guess? "They could be doing it for fun."

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It is known that Dolphins spread their behavior culturally within pods, from one Dolphin to another. Dolphins have even been seen throwing stones at Seals. Dolphins never eat the cousins that they kill, so it is possible that Bottlenose Dolphins are teaching each other to kill just for the lulz.
This is a Risso's Dolphin that was jammed HARD by a Bottlenose.

So people and Dolphins seem to have a lot in common.
Sarah Palin also loves to kill.

Still, humans got it all over their flippered "friends." Every year, Japanese Fishermen round up 20,000 Dolphins and beat them to dead with lead pipes. Then they sneak them into the school lunches of underprivileged children. Why so serious about this? Dolphin meat has 10-to-16 times more mercury than it takes to make kids retarded. Last Wednesday, environmental groups held a die-in in from of the Japanese embassy in Washington to protest the slaughter and serving up of these Heavy Metal Marine Mammals. The Japanese public knows very little of the Dolphin slaughter as the Japanese government, in the pocket of the Japanese fishing industry tries to cover it up. It is called the internet guys, Google it.

Or just keep reading The Chum Slick.

--El Tiburon

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