"There are countless horrible things happening all over the world and horrible people prospering, but we must never allow them to disturb our equanimity or deflect us from our sacred duty to sabotage and annoy them whenever possible." -Auberon Waugh
Deborah .... Sharks and dolphins have different profiles. The dorsal fins are shaped differently. If it were a shark then the tail fin would be visible.
I used to sail off the SOCAL coast and dolphins and orcas were common sights. The latter would surface alongside so close that you could have reached out and scratched their backs (maybe that's what they wanted).
It's definitely food for thought when a 35 foot long killer whale comes up next to your 26 foot sailboat and you realize that if he decides you're good to eat there's not a damn thing you can do about it.
Fortunately there has never been a documented case of an orca attacking a human. That might be because they're too methodical to leave witnesses.
Yet another reminder that humans are the top predatory species on the planet only because of our brains.
ReplyDeleteWhen we bother to use them.
One thing we have going for us, though: we don't seem to taste good to the wild things.
ReplyDeleteDeborah .... Sharks and dolphins have different profiles. The dorsal fins are shaped differently. If it were a shark then the tail fin would be visible.
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure we have dolphins in California. Do we?
ReplyDeleteI used to sail off the SOCAL coast and dolphins and orcas were common sights. The latter would surface alongside so close that you could have reached out and scratched their backs (maybe that's what they wanted).
ReplyDeleteIt's definitely food for thought when a 35 foot long killer whale comes up next to your 26 foot sailboat and you realize that if he decides you're good to eat there's not a damn thing you can do about it.
Fortunately there has never been a documented case of an orca attacking a human. That might be because they're too methodical to leave witnesses.