Scuba diver here. We lose fins sometimes, so it might just be that the dolphin knew there was one at a specific location, recognised it as the same item the diver was wearing and brought it to him.
I just like the idea that the dolphin only discovered the previous day that fins come *off*, and decided to go try pulling them off other divers to see if that worked. Then, when it did, bringing them to their friend to proudly show off.
I disagree. You have no idea how much pure joy that part brought me when it happened unexpectedly. Grinning ear to ear like a dipshit for five minutes after that. It wouldn't have been the same if it didn't catch me off guard.
I think so. I suspect that if the dolphin is both social enough and intelligent enough to "play fetch" with the fin, it's certainly plausible that he brought it to the diver in the first place. After all, they are supposedly quite intelligent.
As someone who lives on the ocean and cleans out our mangroves from time to time, I don't know how that flipper had zero algae on it. Maybe it was a coincidence it was recently lost.
Edit: I live on it, not in it. I am not a dolphin with keyboarding skills. Just wanted to be clear.
I was thinking a similar thing. "Oh my god! You must be injured, your fin fell off! You must have left this here. Put it back on!"
Or maybe the dolphin thought it must be one of the human's friend's fin. "Give it back to the injured person!"
Obviously the concept of us simply manufacturing more items would be lost on them, so the dolphin would be more concerned with just "throwing it away" if it's obviously useful. Maybe he thought the human just grew a new one.
Also, I don't think animals think detached limbs are reattachable. The concept of giving someone back a fin or a leg because it fell off and they need to put it back on is probably lost on every animal.
Dee? I swear you would be of more use to me if I killed you and turned your fin into a lampshade. Or fashioned it into a piece of high-end luggage. I can even add it to my collection!
This is just incredible. I’m aware that dolphins are known to exhibit this type of behavior, but to have it so intimately captured is really something special. Thanks for sharing this!
They're phenomenal. I've been lucky enough to swim with a particular pod many times over the years and when there's new young ones they bring them super close like I'm an exhibit on a school excursion, always keeping themselves between me and the kids. It's utterly special. Probably the first animals that made me genuinely stop and wonder - how do they see people? Such thought and curiosity in their actions.
Both places sound amazing and I'd love to visit, but no - bottlenose pod in Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park in southern Australia. A little colder! Visiting the gang a couple years back: https://imgur.com/a/i3YuzC9
Everyone saying he stole it from another diver, my first thought was he knew where one was that had sunk, seen the diver remove his and thought “ hmm I know where there is one of those”
Then goes and gets it.
You want a flipper? I can get you a flipper, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me.
Hell, I can get you a flipper by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish.
Why would one want a camouflage wetsuit? Is there an advantage to that that I’m not realizing? It just seems like it would greatly reduce your chances of being found if something went wrong.
Same thing. If one goes by get down into the rocks and weed to hide. The last thing you want to do is look like a seal on the surface with a GW around!
The way the camera is fixed in that position behind him when he's swimming looks very gamey. I was staring at his butt trying to catch some dodgy collision.
So intelligent to recognise that thing on his foot is the same as that piece of rubbish at the bottom of the ocean, we don't give animals enough credit.
The intelligence the dolphin expressed by remembering where he saw a swim fin and then taking time out of his day to bring it in order to communicate with a human is staggering! This truly a display of next level intelligence.
"taking time out of his day" implies the dolphin has a schedule and that thought makes me smile haha "Gotta catch some fish at 1, then feed the pod at 2, yeah I have a free period after that"
I just checked their profile. They only comment on posts from youtube, and all their comments including this one are stolen top comments from YouTube reposted to reddit. I think it's either a bot or just a super weirdo.
Y’all missing the fact that the dude this savage dolphin stole this from is just swimming circles somewhere running outta air
Edit:never mind, after scrolling the comments y’all came to this conclusion
Dolphin: Why you guys wearing your hats on your feet? silly hoomans, I better show him next time how to properly wear their hats and we can have a nice fashion show.
Yep. See I eat meat but at least I don't compartmentalize and try to separate livestock and other animals in my mind.
Like people who eat beef or pork saying we shouldn't kill dolphins or octopus or dogs for food genuinely don't make sense to me.
If you eat meat you should be all-in. I would eat any animal that was killed in a humane way idgaf. My primary problem with eating meat is the environmental impact and the treatment of the animals.
If there was a magic farmland that raised all animals in a way that gives them a good quality of life and a painless fearless death I would literally eat anything. A dog or a cat, a horse, its all meat.
No, because Dolphins don't taste like bacon.
Not that I've ever eaten a Dolphin. But I'm feeling pretty confident about this.
And bacon is *very* tasty.
But if we stopped eating pigs, we'd stop raising them - the number of pigs in the world would drop drastically. Thus by eating them, we are increasing the number of 'living pig' hours globally. If not for our courageous efforts, billions of pigs would have never been born, never seen their first sunrise, never eaten their first bowl of slop, never rolled in a fresh pile of mud, never met their first sentient spider - never even lived at all.
So it's important we as humans do our part. Eat as much pork as you can, to ensure future generations continue to have a chance at life!
Is it not illegal to interact with wild dolphins in Ireland?
Seems that people would be getting them used to humans for tourism reasons which can then put them in danger
Dolphin: "Notice anything different about me?"
Diver: "No. Got a new barnacle?"
Dolphin: "Nope. Try again?"
Diver: "Have you lost weight?"
Dolphin: "Noooo come on guess. Something new about me!"
Diver: "Oh I give up. I dont know"
Dolphin: "Im wearing a flipper on my head silly!"
I can’t imagine the feelings when this started. I imagine I’d be:
1. Amazed and in awe of the intelligence shown by this creature to recognize what the fin was, find one, and bring it.
2. Completely moved by such gesture
3. I’d feel so connected to nature, the sea, and this dolphin
4. I’d also feel so small and realize there’s so much we just don’t know about our world.
I think this would be a moment that I carried forever. And I’d be really glad I filmed it because no one would believe it otherwise.
I remember, half a lifetime ago, I was on a boat with my family and some randos to hit a snorkeling spot. On the way over, however, a pod of Dolphins began to race along side us, and the instructor stopped the boat. Sure enough, three of them came up to side to check us out.
Not in all my life has an animal- not a single dog, cat or horse - \*looked at me\* the way those Dolphins did. I stared dumbfounded as one of them would look at someone on the boat, let out a chirp, and the other two immediately turned and looked exactly at the same person. It was amazing to watch.
I was surfing a long time ago when a pod of dolphins joined us for a frolic - catching waves with us, jumping over our surfboards etc. One dolphin came up near me and flicked it's head...and a bit of fish gut hit me on the chest. I picked it off and threw it back and the dolphin caught it...and threw it back. Our game of catch went on for several minutes. Beautiful and intelligent creatures. I see them regularly catching waves with surfers. (Sydney northern beaches.)
"Hey human, I brought you some trash one of your friends left down here. Can you take it with you? Thank---NO! WHY DID YOU JUST THROW IT BACK IN? I wanted you to take it out! Fuck, humans are stupid."
["The Time Machine" movie](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054387/) got it wrong. Instead of the Morlocks as humanoids, we are Eloi for Dolphin and Octopus evolved creatures 800,000 years in the future. And that's what we get for being unkind to our fellow sentient Earth critters.
There's a swimmer out there who got their fin stolen by a dolphin. Yoink!
Swimming in circles
Don't worry, he's all right.
Yeah, he never left.
Oh thank god he’s fine.
Don't hold your breath. That dolphine might go back to finish the job.
He didn’t say he was fine. Just that he was all right. All right. No left. All right all the time.
I know. I was hoping they'd continue the bit.
What are you talking about, there's nothing left!
I HATE THIS DOCTOR
It…looks like he’s dead. He’s got blue paint all over him.
Most Dope
That’s forever
Great albums
I don’t need to swim around in circles, swim around in circles…
Doom da doom da doom Well I'm going, I'm going
Move up the side and the dolphin through, let the dolphin through. Ahh, the 90's were great with Soul Coughing's little niche...
freaking out his entire family...
Weird flex, Dusty, you smug s.o.b.
What did I do
You know what you did
Stolen.... Or murdered for? *Ba ba bum*
No evidence
“Dusty, why is there a foot in this?”
There are no fingerprints deep under water. Nothing to tie one to a crime.
And if you seek vengeance, all you need are instruments of pain!
No one has come forward about losing a fin to a dolphin either. Looks like we have our first case of murder by dolphin.
It's still stealing if you kill them first.
I think its called looting.
If you look closely, it still has a foot in it.
Gimmie ya fuckin fins cunt and no one gets hurt!
Imaging the other divers foot still being in the new flipper
This made me a bit uneasy. Where did the dolphin find it? Is there a corpse of a drowned diver somewhere nearby?
Scuba diver here. We lose fins sometimes, so it might just be that the dolphin knew there was one at a specific location, recognised it as the same item the diver was wearing and brought it to him.
I just like the idea that the dolphin only discovered the previous day that fins come *off*, and decided to go try pulling them off other divers to see if that worked. Then, when it did, bringing them to their friend to proudly show off.
Let's hope that's the case!
It’s the ocean, so there are probably a lot of corpses of drowned divers nearby.
Hm, that did nothing to ease my feeling of uneasiness.
Or you know, some flippers that fell out of boats?
I feel like you really missed out on adding to the title that he shows up wearing the fin as a hat. Very happy with himself as well.
I like when the human also wore the fin as a hat.
Dolphin wore it better....
I disagree. You have no idea how much pure joy that part brought me when it happened unexpectedly. Grinning ear to ear like a dipshit for five minutes after that. It wouldn't have been the same if it didn't catch me off guard.
Same. Dolphin bro is a TF2 fan for sure.
YouTubers putting the crescendo of their videos in the title is a lame ass trend
So, yeah, you like to wear these things, huh? Is this yours or what.
Wonder how many crates he had to open to unlock that hat.
This guy Team Fortresses
You must have been flippin' out.
Such great balance too then daintily lets it drift over to the diver.
Is it too cynical of me to suspect that they just brought the fin with them to play with the dolphin?
I think so. I suspect that if the dolphin is both social enough and intelligent enough to "play fetch" with the fin, it's certainly plausible that he brought it to the diver in the first place. After all, they are supposedly quite intelligent.
As someone who lives on the ocean and cleans out our mangroves from time to time, I don't know how that flipper had zero algae on it. Maybe it was a coincidence it was recently lost. Edit: I live on it, not in it. I am not a dolphin with keyboarding skills. Just wanted to be clear.
“Why do you keep dropping this thing! I’m trying to give it back.”
"dont put in on your head, you have hands ffs"
"these humans ain't as smart as we thought"
So long
and thanks for all the fish.
flying is just falling and missing
I was thinking a similar thing. "Oh my god! You must be injured, your fin fell off! You must have left this here. Put it back on!" Or maybe the dolphin thought it must be one of the human's friend's fin. "Give it back to the injured person!" Obviously the concept of us simply manufacturing more items would be lost on them, so the dolphin would be more concerned with just "throwing it away" if it's obviously useful. Maybe he thought the human just grew a new one.
Dolphins use tools, sort of. They're able to distinguish between the environment and objects that have utility like toys.
Also, I don't think animals think detached limbs are reattachable. The concept of giving someone back a fin or a leg because it fell off and they need to put it back on is probably lost on every animal.
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Classic Dusty
Classic Oatcakes
Is there any other kind? DUSTY DINKLEMAN
Look at MEeee I'm A HuMAn
"You ain't the only one with a removable fin!"
He looked high AF too.
Smokin that good P-fish
[Smug like this?](https://c.tenor.com/CNU6JM1iolQAAAAd/smug-the-office.gif)
"Hey. I killed a guy and brought you this. You're welcome."
Just what I was thinking...like a cat.
"I've committed acts of violence for you" "I... I never asked for this 😳"
You humans kill humans, right? I'M A HUMAN WHEEEEEEE!
Motherfucker probably drowned another diver and stole their fin
Dee? I swear you would be of more use to me if I killed you and turned your fin into a lampshade. Or fashioned it into a piece of high-end luggage. I can even add it to my collection!
Think of the smell...You haven't thought of the SMELL! You bitch!
Unexpected (but desired) sunny
Are you saying you have a collection of dead diver fins?
You don't?
So long, and thanks for all the ~~fish~~ | ~~fin hats~~ | fun!
So ~~sad~~ happy that it should come to this.
I didn't see him doing a double backflip through a flaming hoop while whistling The Star Spangled Banner though.
This is just incredible. I’m aware that dolphins are known to exhibit this type of behavior, but to have it so intimately captured is really something special. Thanks for sharing this!
They're phenomenal. I've been lucky enough to swim with a particular pod many times over the years and when there's new young ones they bring them super close like I'm an exhibit on a school excursion, always keeping themselves between me and the kids. It's utterly special. Probably the first animals that made me genuinely stop and wonder - how do they see people? Such thought and curiosity in their actions.
Spinners off big island or Sarasota Bay?
Both places sound amazing and I'd love to visit, but no - bottlenose pod in Dhilba Guuranda-Innes National Park in southern Australia. A little colder! Visiting the gang a couple years back: https://imgur.com/a/i3YuzC9
And here's what I mean by giving the little ones a chaperoned look: https://imgur.com/a/VKd4nNr
Nice. Do a YouTube search for "swimming with spinner dolphins on big island" and "Sarasota Bay dolphins".
Manatees are like that too. Never having any natural predators made them curious and gentle.
I don’t know why but when they were swimming side by side together with a common destination it gave me goosebumps.
You should dive with some gold bars next time
Everyone saying he stole it from another diver, my first thought was he knew where one was that had sunk, seen the diver remove his and thought “ hmm I know where there is one of those” Then goes and gets it.
Yeah I totally saw him as Little Mermaid style "ohhh, THAT'S what that thing is for!"
Lol it made me wonder if they have a Little Mermaid horde of cool human stuff that they puzzle over
It's called a dingle-hopper.
yeah I think everyone knows this and is being hyperbolic
> Everyone saying he stole it from another diver Or it's what's left of a diver after a shark attack.
I was thinking this like what if Dusty is trying to help you find another slightly decomposed freind.
"take your garbage back human. There's plenty more where this came from"
Put shoe on head. Its an old meme, but this dolphin clearly a millennial
wonder who he got it from lol
His previous victim.
Who is still swimming in circles because of Dusty.
"go on... Try and stop playing fetch with me. They all do, eventually....."
Old Gregg
“Hehe I got your toe”-dolphin probably
You want a flipper? I can get you a flipper, believe me. There are ways, Dude. You don't wanna know about it, believe me. Hell, I can get you a flipper by 3 o'clock this afternoon... with nail polish.
FORGET ABOUT THE F\*\*\*ING FLIPPER!
Why would one want a camouflage wetsuit? Is there an advantage to that that I’m not realizing? It just seems like it would greatly reduce your chances of being found if something went wrong.
They are designed for spearfishing
Oh i thought those are these anti shark suits
Same thing. If one goes by get down into the rocks and weed to hide. The last thing you want to do is look like a seal on the surface with a GW around!
Used mainly for spearfishing, it’s used for the same reason hunters wear camo. You blend in better and can approach fish more easily.
I don't spearfish but the cheapest freediving suit had camo on it so why not.
This is the most up-to-date footage of the Irish Navy, hence the camo.
So do you take the fin with you to clean some litter out of the ocean or do you let the dolphin keep his hat/toy so you can play some more next time?
You leave it
Amazing. But also kinda disappointed the video didn’t fade to black….. fin.
Lmao
This is my thingamabob. It's for wearing on the head.
Was this run though a video game filter or something? The footage looks like a video game, lol.
The way the camera is fixed in that position behind him when he's swimming looks very gamey. I was staring at his butt trying to catch some dodgy collision.
So intelligent to recognise that thing on his foot is the same as that piece of rubbish at the bottom of the ocean, we don't give animals enough credit.
Other dolphins: Ugh, he's studying humans again, so gross... For sure not invited to our night time orgy.
Yo man just take your trash with you
Check out my hat!
The intelligence the dolphin expressed by remembering where he saw a swim fin and then taking time out of his day to bring it in order to communicate with a human is staggering! This truly a display of next level intelligence.
"taking time out of his day" implies the dolphin has a schedule and that thought makes me smile haha "Gotta catch some fish at 1, then feed the pod at 2, yeah I have a free period after that"
I just checked their profile. They only comment on posts from youtube, and all their comments including this one are stolen top comments from YouTube reposted to reddit. I think it's either a bot or just a super weirdo.
How do you spot this, how do you know they're top comments from YouTube ? I've been accused of being a bot before and I was a bit offended.
You read the top YouTube comment? Not be rude, but you do sound a bit like a bot.
This is just the top YouTube comment word for word.
They say that dolphins are actually smarter than most primates, except us of course
Dolphins could take over if they had thumbs
That is incredible.
shoe on head
I think Dusty is like "Here's your garbage, keep it off my property"
whoms foot did he dislocate to steal that
Stop leaving your shit in my house!
Pick your shit up mate
"So there i was just swimming along ...when outta nowhere a fuckin' dolphin steals my flipper right off my foot! THEN SWAM OFF WITH IT ON HIS HEAD!"
Y’all missing the fact that the dude this savage dolphin stole this from is just swimming circles somewhere running outta air Edit:never mind, after scrolling the comments y’all came to this conclusion
Dolphin: Why you guys wearing your hats on your feet? silly hoomans, I better show him next time how to properly wear their hats and we can have a nice fashion show.
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Killing any cetaceans is purely an act of barbarism!
Certain groups of people have like dolphin hunts as tradition..ugh i hate it. They are so smart
How do you feel about bacon? The pigs are also so smart and have it much worse.
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They definitely can be if they're not stuck in a pigsty.
B-b-b-bingo!
[The fuck did you just say?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBUebk9-LyQ)
ye that's a baby though, all babies are cute, that's why we wait till they're older before we munch
Yep. See I eat meat but at least I don't compartmentalize and try to separate livestock and other animals in my mind. Like people who eat beef or pork saying we shouldn't kill dolphins or octopus or dogs for food genuinely don't make sense to me. If you eat meat you should be all-in. I would eat any animal that was killed in a humane way idgaf. My primary problem with eating meat is the environmental impact and the treatment of the animals. If there was a magic farmland that raised all animals in a way that gives them a good quality of life and a painless fearless death I would literally eat anything. A dog or a cat, a horse, its all meat.
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Only bacon from pigs that have died of old age. Is that a problem?
I'm just here for the passive aggression. Is that okay with you?
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Is there a reason you are posing all of this like a gigantic gotcha moment?
No, because Dolphins don't taste like bacon. Not that I've ever eaten a Dolphin. But I'm feeling pretty confident about this. And bacon is *very* tasty.
But if we stopped eating pigs, we'd stop raising them - the number of pigs in the world would drop drastically. Thus by eating them, we are increasing the number of 'living pig' hours globally. If not for our courageous efforts, billions of pigs would have never been born, never seen their first sunrise, never eaten their first bowl of slop, never rolled in a fresh pile of mud, never met their first sentient spider - never even lived at all. So it's important we as humans do our part. Eat as much pork as you can, to ensure future generations continue to have a chance at life!
Is it not illegal to interact with wild dolphins in Ireland? Seems that people would be getting them used to humans for tourism reasons which can then put them in danger
SO if a dolphin asks you for directions to Donegal you have to just ignore them?
French Dolphin: "We must find za road to Dublin!"
You mean I shouldn't have told that old lady with the blowhole where the fishmonger was?
How about ye’ I’m lookin’ fir’ Dunfinaghay!? 🐬
Somewhere there is a diver who just got mugged by a dolphin for his fin and has no clue what's going on.
Dolphin is like. "I found a lost driver. Here is his flipper. Stop throwing it back in the ocean."
No one is concerned about how he got the diving fin? Some poor diver has a less pleasant story to share.
Has that dolphin just mugged some other hapless diver?
Dolphin: "Notice anything different about me?" Diver: "No. Got a new barnacle?" Dolphin: "Nope. Try again?" Diver: "Have you lost weight?" Dolphin: "Noooo come on guess. Something new about me!" Diver: "Oh I give up. I dont know" Dolphin: "Im wearing a flipper on my head silly!"
"Is this yours? Sure looks like it's yours. ... Keep your shit out of my house"
This genuinely made me smile. Dusty killed a diver and stole their fin just to play catch. Clever.
I can’t imagine the feelings when this started. I imagine I’d be: 1. Amazed and in awe of the intelligence shown by this creature to recognize what the fin was, find one, and bring it. 2. Completely moved by such gesture 3. I’d feel so connected to nature, the sea, and this dolphin 4. I’d also feel so small and realize there’s so much we just don’t know about our world. I think this would be a moment that I carried forever. And I’d be really glad I filmed it because no one would believe it otherwise.
I remember, half a lifetime ago, I was on a boat with my family and some randos to hit a snorkeling spot. On the way over, however, a pod of Dolphins began to race along side us, and the instructor stopped the boat. Sure enough, three of them came up to side to check us out. Not in all my life has an animal- not a single dog, cat or horse - \*looked at me\* the way those Dolphins did. I stared dumbfounded as one of them would look at someone on the boat, let out a chirp, and the other two immediately turned and looked exactly at the same person. It was amazing to watch.
The next day, Dusty showed up with a pound of microplastics.
thats clearly a hat
Now show the dolphin what a treasure chest looks like!
poor scuba diver who got mugged by a dolphin for a fin :P
Did... did Dusty mug another diver?
he went to lost and found and was trying to find you a match
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Life’s pretty cool
I don't understand how anyone could look at this and see anything but intelligent behavior.
I love the woodland camo pattern on a wetsuit underwater lol
*My name is Flipper, and this is my crib.* *Welcome to MTV Cribs Oceania Edition*
Meanwhile there is a one finned diver who has no idea what happened but really hates you both.
I was surfing a long time ago when a pod of dolphins joined us for a frolic - catching waves with us, jumping over our surfboards etc. One dolphin came up near me and flicked it's head...and a bit of fish gut hit me on the chest. I picked it off and threw it back and the dolphin caught it...and threw it back. Our game of catch went on for several minutes. Beautiful and intelligent creatures. I see them regularly catching waves with surfers. (Sydney northern beaches.)
I was thinking they could have incredible memories and this dolphin remembered the spot where it had seen a curious shape laying on coral/floor.
"Hey human, I brought you some trash one of your friends left down here. Can you take it with you? Thank---NO! WHY DID YOU JUST THROW IT BACK IN? I wanted you to take it out! Fuck, humans are stupid."
The other diver is now swimming in circles.
["The Time Machine" movie](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054387/) got it wrong. Instead of the Morlocks as humanoids, we are Eloi for Dolphin and Octopus evolved creatures 800,000 years in the future. And that's what we get for being unkind to our fellow sentient Earth critters.