3 Potential Reasons Why Dolphins Are Attacking People


If you’ve been watching the news recently you might’ve noticed a strange story coming out of Japan. Dolphins have been attacking humans on Japanese beaches and some people have been getting injured. Although the thought of a dolphin attacking a human may seem strange at first, dolphin attacks on humans aren’t unheard of. There are often many complicated reasons as to why dolphins act aggressively towards humans and i will be going through just a few of them in this video.

Chapters
0:00 Introduction
0:34 Recent Dolphin Attacks In Japan
1:13 Other Infamous Dolphin Attacks
1:24 Tião The Killer Dolphin
1:59 Are Dolphins Aggressive Creatures
3:22 Dolphin Attacks In Captivity
3:51 Dolphins Are Just Playing?
5:07 Dolphins Hate Humans?
6:42 Dolphins Are Protecting Their Territory

Attributions

Dolphin images:
Gobierno CDMX
https://www.flickr.com/photos/1406602…
(CC0 1.0)
Reinhard Link
https://www.flickr.com/photos/1294725…
(CC BY-SA 2.0)
safaritravelplus
https://www.safaritravelplus.com/imag…
(CC0 1.0)

Broken rib image:
James Heilman, MD
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Us…
(CC BY-SA 3.0)

Orca footage:
Nature’s Best Photography
https://vimeo.com/naturesbestfilms
CC BY-NC-ND

Faroe islands dolphin whale hunt images:
Sea Shepherd

Home

I have edited and adapted some of these clips and images.
Creative commons licences: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Thanks for watching I hope you enjoyed 🙂

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Director of Manchester School of Samba at http://www.sambaman.org.uk
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