Tricks

The other day I was at the beach and I was able to see some dolphins off the shore. What is it about them that they always seem so happy?

In the film “The hitch-hikers guide to the universe” the dolphins were trying to warn earth of coming destructions but people thought they were just doing tricks. They leave and sing a song “So long and thanks for the fish,” that came to mind as I watched them play.

Some of them even jumped out of the water and I could see their whole body. It was a good size pod that I was watching. I could see the times they blow a bit of water off their blowholes, which helps to keep track of them.

I could have watched them for hours, but they moved on. They spent a good long time one area, maybe there had been a school of fish there. Their black sleek bodies looked shinny when they jumped up.

It wasn’t the most remarkable thing, but it was great to see them doing tricks as if they were performing in Sea World, only this time is was just on their own. It has been noted that it’s not that they are so smart. It’s just that they don’t have many enemies. They don’t have to spend as much time worrying about who will eat them. They have more time to play. The fewer predators the more time to learn tricks. That’s nice for them and for us so we get to see them flip in the air and look cute.

I don’t know what they are thinking, when they jump through hoops or do other tricks. It does look like they are having fun, especially when you see them doing that on their own in the wild.