Just heartwarming....

[pbmus]

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[radical noodle]

1. Beautiful video

I can't help but think how much more kind this whale was than many humans today.

[Solly Mack]

2. She was a boat seal that needed to be taken back to her boat home.

What a wonderful whale story!

[Rhiannon12866]

3. K&R! Coolest thread of the day!

Thanks for sharing it with us!

[mnhtnbb]

4. Totally cool story.

What an experience.

[CanSocDem]

5. Modern Science is so clueless...

...they think any intelligent incursion is an attack. I hope this scientist learns something from this.


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[Number9Dream]

6. Many documented stories of marine mammals protecting humans

They seem to know that most humans mean them no harm, and that there is some sort of bond between us.

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (Reuters) -- A pod of dolphins circled protectively round a group of New Zealand swimmers to fend off an attack by a great white shark, media reported on Tuesday.

Lifesavers Rob Howes, his 15-year-old daughter Niccy, Karina Cooper and Helen Slade were swimming 100 metres (300 feet) off Ocean Beach near Whangarei on New Zealand's North Island when the dolphins herded them -- apparently to protect them from a shark.

Howes tried to drift away from the group, but two of the bigger dolphins herded him back just as he spotted a three-meter (nine feet) great white shark swimming towards the group.

https://www.aljazeera.com/archive/2004/11/20084913260236549.html

[Duppers]

8. Amazing!

They are simply amazing.

[Duppers]

7. ❤ this!

How can the Japanese kill these beautiful souls?

[Aristus]

9. It's amazing the shit people can get away with

by bleating “It’s a tradition!”

[Duppers]

10. Exactly!

"...( blah blah blah) you cannot criticize because...."

I'm sick of that excuse too.

[lambchopp59]

11. You can bet that whale wouldn't vote Republican

No profit motive for such a charitable, generous, benevolent, public-spirited, munificent, openhanded, bountiful, liberal, beneficent, selfless caring, compassionate, unselfish and kind hearted an action for most MAGA's I know. They'd be rooting for the shark.