DANCE OF THE DOLPHINS🤩💙🐬! How amazing is this clip, shared by our wonderful friend Vince @maestro320 who offers a wealth of information with everything he posts - such a great educator🙏🌏🌎🌍. How amazing is the manoeuvrability of the dolphins though😍🥰😏😲??!! Reposted from @maestro320 - "Going Aerial" - 🔵Maestro's Notes: This impressive footage of bowriding dolphins was filmed on location off The Coast of Baja California, Mexico courtesy of UnCruise Adventures @uncruise - Dancing dolphins by the bow. Why do dolphins bow-ride? It has been proposed that it is a mechanism to efficiently travel from one place to another. However, this is unlikely, for one often sees bow-riding dolphins after some time heading back to whence they picked up the vessel. Instead, it is more likely that riding the bow is done for enjoyment, for the sport of it; in other words, play. This is of great interest to behaviorists, for there are not too many nondomesticated adult mammals that habitually engage in activities just for the fun of them, although the list is growing with detailed observations in nature. Bow-riding was certainly not “invented” by dolphins as a sport when human-made vessels first came on the scene. Instead, it appears to have been adapted from other wave-riding forms. Dolphins ride on the lee slopes of large oceanic waves and on the curling waves (or surf) that are formed as oceanic waves touch near-shore bottom (these two “rides” are hydro-dynamically quite different; Hertel, 1969). Yes, dolphins “body surf’ much as do humans, but dolphins are generally much better surfers than humans. Dolphins also ride the bow waves of surging whales, such as of the larger of the baleen whales, and sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus). Dolphins even “entice” whales to surge ahead by rapidly crossing back and forth a whale’s eyes and snout. The whale surges forward in response (and apparent annoyance), often blowing forcefully during the surge. An abrupt bow wave is formed, and the previously heckling dolphins are all lined up in that wave, apparently enjoying its momentary pressure effect. #dolphins #manoeuvrability #bowriding #jointhepod #dancing #acrobatics https://www.instagram.com/p/ByKNpjagQ_d/?igshid=14vmt9fa5yhn1
