Nightscrawlers

This amused me to no end.

You know...I suppose its the rich version of having your cat or your dog sit at the end of your bed and stare at you.

Paws

[Edited on 16/7/07 by fourpawsonthefloor]

They get jealous? But can't they just go have sex with some other dolphin?

I think that's adorable and can't imagine why anyone would care about dolphins watching. Is the dolphin holding a camera? Is the dolphin going to tell his wife he was having sex without her?

(My cat liked to lay at the end of the bed with her back to us and her ears flattened to her skull. Knock that off! This is MY BED.)

Dolphins rock so hard. That would totally be unnerving.

Yeah. Well at first I was like...well SO? Who cares if they watch. Then I remembered all the times my cat has intently watched us and I was like...ahhh. yeah.

Paws

Right. If I ever have sex in my submarine, I'm SO closing the blinds.

Actually, this makes sense though. About 4 years ago I spent a week as a volunteer dolphin trainer (read: lackey to real dolphin trainers) at a facility in the Florida Keys. Dolphin training is what clicker training is based on so I was interested.

It was fascinating. Dolphins are really smart. Blah blah blah. Here's something they don't tell you. Dolphins are really amorous. They will leave in the middle of a training session to go have sex and there's nothing you can do about it because what incentive is a bucket of fish guts when you've got dolphin sex going on? Are you going to swim out there, whack them with a newspaper and be like "bad dolphins! no sex!" so they can come back to the dock and jump through hoops for you?

No. You just have to wait until the dolphin coitus is complete. There is a lot of standing around watching dolphin sex during dolphin training.

This isn't to mention that sometimes they'd have to shut down those "swim with dolphins" sessions that people pay for because the male dolphins get a little too ... interested in the people they're swimming with.

I blame cartoons. People think animals are Disney cartoons without sex lives or instincts. Damn Disney.

-e

Originally posted by Saint Kurt

This isn't to mention that sometimes they'd have to shut down those "swim with dolphins" sessions that people pay for because the male dolphins get a little too ... interested in the people they're swimming with.

-e

HAHAHA! They did that one on a king of the hill episode. Poor staunch Hank got molested.

Paws

Originally posted by Saint Kurt
It was fascinating. Dolphins are really smart. Blah blah blah. Here's something they don't tell you. Dolphins are really amorous. They will leave in the middle of a training session to go have sex and there's nothing you can do about it because what incentive is a bucket of fish guts when you've got dolphin sex going on? Are you going to swim out there, whack them with a newspaper and be like "bad dolphins! no sex!" so they can come back to the dock and jump through hoops for you?

No. You just have to wait until the dolphin coitus is complete.

No kidding. Dolphins are how big, and weigh how much? Plus they have teeth. It's like at Yellowstone. What do you do if a bear or bison decides to plop itself down in front of your car and look at the funny humans inside? You let it. You're in their world now.

I think it's the tapping on the glass that's bugging people. Seems like they could put the one-way mirror stuff on the windows so the people can get a view of the ocean without the ocean getting a view of them.