Historical Nonfiction

Dolphins, The Second Most Intelligent Creatures on Earth

In 1971, the Navy dispatched a team of dolphins “armed” with large carbon-dioxide-filled hypodermic needles strapped to their beaks to guard a U.S. Navy base in Vietnam. The dolphins had been taught to hunt humans swimming in the water and prod them with their beak, delivering a fatal injection in the humans’ lungs or stomachs.

(Source: facts.randomhistory.com)

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   holy shit that’s scary.

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   somebody write me a short spy story where the ninjas are just dolphins

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   My view of dolphins has been slightly altered…

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    DONT TRUST DOLPHINS. EVER.

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    so that’s what the government uses them for. Isn’t there a movie about this somewhere?

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    Beak? Beak? Oh, historical-nonfiction, I am ashamed. “Rostrum” or “nose” would have been acceptable.

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    Hahaha that be a great day at the beach with the family ;-)

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    coooooooooool

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    So long, and thanks for all the fish.

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