If the myth of shark attacks continues to haunt our minds as soon as we put our toes in the sea, we should now also, if not especially, be wary of dolphins. We know it all the more since Orelsan reminded us of it in Basic but dolphins aren’t the nice little sea creatures we’ve been trying to sell for generations. The proof has once again been given to us in Japan, where cetacean attacks are increasing against swimmers.
4 dolphin attacks in one day in Japan
As reported by the very serious Asahi Shimbun, one of the major Japanese national daily newspapers, a swimmer was attacked on July 16 while bathing on a beach in the city of Mihama, in central Japan. And when we talk about attack, it is really the case since this sixty-year-old man would have escaped with several bites on his hands as well as broken ribs. Even more astonishing, the victim was not alone and was only a few meters from the edge. Still in the same area, another man also faced an aggressive dolphin that bit him earlier that same day. He was on a known and very busy beach. Ditto for two other people, more slightly injured. A count that brings us to four attacks in 24 hours.
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Could it only be the fault of a somewhat venerable dolphin who would cause carnage in the area? Not so sure at all since the police have already recorded six dolphin attacks since the beginning of the summer. Already last year, Japan was hit by this surprising new danger. So much so that the authorities had ended up installing warning signs to recommend that bathers not approach and even less touch the mammals.
The phenomenon had already been observed ten years earlier in the Republic of Ireland, with two women attacked a few days apart, recalls the BBC site, before a new episode a year later when five bathers found themselves surrounded by unhappy dolphins before being rescued.
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If we are still far from a global panic, caution is therefore still in order. But the explanation unfortunately seems quite simple. Everything would be in fact the fault of the Man. In any case, this is what experts quoted in particular by the Gizmodo site and according to which the bottlenose dolphin (also called bottlenose dolphin or bottlenose dolphin) would be particularly stressed to find themselves facing humans in their natural habitat. Add to that an already precarious state linked to overfishing which greatly weakens the cetacean population and you get the perfect mix to make an initially simply curious animal aggressive.
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Gizmodo goes further and sees it as an “ocean rebellion” and recalls that several spinner dolphins (aka the spinner dolphin) had also put a lot of pressure on swimmers recently on the side of Hawaii.
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Beyond these few attacks, however, it is good to remember that it is rather the dolphins who are victims of humans and not the other way around. In France alone, nearly 1,500 small cetaceans have been found dead on the French Atlantic coast over the past year, recalls the CNRS newspaper. The explanation is unfortunately simple: nearly 90% would have been victims of our fishing nets, says Olivier Van Canneyt, biologist at the Pelagis observatory in La Rochelle, quoted by CNRS the newspaper : “Before stranding on the coast, the mammals were trapped in one of the many fishing nets deployed in the Bay of Biscay. Unable to free themselves, they could not rise to the surface and died of asphyxiation.“.
We understand better why they do not have a passion for us.
2023-07-24 00:02:05
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