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amazing dolphin intelligence - dolphins save human from shark [Full wildlife documentary]
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since ancient times there have been stories have dolphins rescuing humans
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all is there any truth behind them
or are they just myths and legends you
there have been few witnesses
until now it
for the shot direction in the water shopped around me
and so it was heading in the direction he green and the Dolphins around them
just went ballistic
the house living with fear but there's just really had
clear here like banking bed
might have to be in the Dolphins and what they want him to do
no in
but why would dole dreams come to our rescue I
and can be really sense when we're in danger
natural world investigates to extraordinary rescues
that could change the way we think about towards
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in the depths of the ocean dolphins and whales have a bowl
the largest brains on the planet allowing for body size
the bottle nose dolphin is second only to humans
until recently we could only guess
what went on in their minds
no scientists are beginning to understand just what these creatures are
really capable of
they're finding that dolphins are not only intelligent but they're also
emotional creatures
the mir always had a fascination
tells live in the past see
twenty years I'm we've seen a lot of
scientific basis for that fastened
Lori Marino is a leading dolphin expert in 2001
she and her team prove to the world the Dolphins could recognize themselves in
the mirror
cancel this simple ability that we take for granted
was a revelation it meant the dolphins were self-aware
the implications of self-awareness and dolphins a profound
we as humans have self-aware
and what that means is that we can think about
our own plots we can think about the slaughter
other people with you think about the feelings that other people in India
other species
and it's very possible that dolphins can do the same thing
it means the Dolphins could recognize emotions in humans
what they may be able to sense when will frighten
or in pain they may even be able to feel compassion towards
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it but could be really people love selfless act of courage
come to our rescue new evidence from the survivors a terrifying encounter
Charles suggests that they could
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the Red Sea
Martin Richardson is on holiday learning to die was very relaxed atmosphere on
the boat
we didn't have many passengers most the crew were just laying around
in the Sun reading a book and you just a normal day
blazing round in the Red Sea the finish diving today
and the boat is on the way back to pull and that's when Danny Shaw to know
that and there was no point in the water so would be home soon you rushed
straight to the side
we looked over and hassle-free dolphins in babydoll
in because she first reaction is a jump in your swim with them know yet
there 5 magical minutes
Martin and his friends swim with the dolphins the
old
ball
but then the Dolphins move away and everyone climbs out
on leaving Marty alone in the water
from the boat his friend Tony in the others can still see the dolphins nearby
first to
by yourself things which were just talking droid and at least one dolphin
swimming around them
and turned all things pursuing into the general
area fun
the man
had little swim around knows that the I'm
is drifting off source news starting to turn around and come get me
the NHTSA eyes lie on my back just taking the arms and legs from
and I was on in the water for a couple minutes
the Mormon
I'm
them
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to sell the big fund
come from on the
some hit you that hard new in three noteworthy
is
Martin sustains a massive bite to his back on
realize straight away %um
Friday like to see the blood around me first night the swim back was to get
away from the blood
realize that I couldn't the shock comes in for a second attack
and there's nothing you can do you home
you can't fight something that you can see
the
you both so much adrenaline running through you
and the fear factor as well turn
no I didn't I didn't feel anything to wear
Martin is losing blood fast and he's starting to drift into unconsciousness
looks over the side and we can still see
the Dolphins name on scene Miami Dolphins have been circled
by the adults which obviously looks as if the adult opens for protecting the
babies from what was going on the female teachers alike
hmm lights are turned my back on the boat
and yeah I just like gave 'em star was just expecting one more hit
and that will be it land
realize that you're not going to survive this
yeah it was the most contented I've ever fail
in my life Martin will not survive another attack
then suddenly the Dolphins reappear on
looks over the side a gang so dope fiends was so in the past the salt
ever saying doping swing beside the boat toward mine where the blood was
Nov there
yeah
no just amaze me after
problem 30sec easily alderson harry pulled up next to me
mom which I just got couldn't believe Martin suffered a punctured lung and
lost six pints of blood
he was lucky to survive
the bites were consistent with the maker one of the most aggressive shocks known
be received three hundred stitches
and had to skin graft to his chest 0
in the ferocity of the attack Martin didn't see the dolphins come to his
rescue
and it wasn't until you recovered that he found out what happened
when I got out of the hospital problem back to
to the bone he said you know by need to know the truth about this
was that true about the Dolphins and and and Tony to
thats he had seen a dolphin a meter away from me and another one in the vicinity
so I fully believe that the Dolphins did save my life
but deeply really Save Mart in or were they just protecting their own young
janet mann has been observing dolphins in the wild for nearly 20 years
jews often see mothers defending their cards from shark attack
I'm
might we see the females typically Davis
cooperate against a shark and the way they will do that is either
balling up together to face of the shark or jointly mopping the shark
the most dramatic reaction I've seen from a group adult offense
as many in encountered a shark and the ball tap into
as it to appear as one giant often
and the shark turned and sped
at the area very very quickly
could the dolphins in the Red Sea have deliberately extended his protective
behavior
to save Mar 29 now the big question of course is why would they have surround
humans why
with the defendant I'm kind of themselves and the humans against the
shock
the mood of an expert Vincent Yannick
believes they were just trying to protect themselves we humans of
trying to drawl the conclusion that there's some kinda higher-order thing
going on
however I think what happens he is that the animal basically suddenly faced with
sharks are
life-threatening attack will fall into a kind of default
situation where they're trying to defend their group trying to defend
close relatives that are around them and in that context
they probably would have just read the humans just like they were up some other
dolphins that were with mall though yen is skeptical
Martin believes that the Dolphins did save his life but like so many others
open rescues
the evidence is inconclusive are
one thing we do know is that the need to cooperate against predators like sharks
led two tokens becoming social creatures and triggered their remarkable bring
development
so is it really a far cry to imagine that such an intelligent creature
could make a conscious decision to save a human being
home are the moon
more evidence was needed and in October 2005 it came
with news of an astonishing doping rescue that would leave little room for
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the New Zealand's North Island are
its remote coastline plunges thousands of feet
into the pacific ocean gold
it's home to bottle nosed dolphins
and the most feared predator on earth the great white shark
it was here at Ocean Beach that a group of young lifeguards were involved in one
of the most dramatic doping rescues
ever witnessed
this is their first exclusive account of what happened
in
lifeguards Robie house his 14-year-old daughter Nikki
and her friends element Karina had arranged a day on the beach
it was a week after the start of the season so
we were buoyed by the fact that we had an excuse to come
out to the beach and get into the water again I'm
just a good feeling just giving it to the beach again
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it's a big day for Helen she nearly drowned here's a child
it's the first time she's returned here to swim
Ocean Beach wasn't my favorite place in the world and I vowed never to some here
again
so the way and being at the Bates had made me a picture
Karina has been a lifeguard at Ocean Beach for three years
I'm you know taunting helmet down only
ready that bright Bentham and just do it for himself but
you know halon like only game oppose the bravest
and so I'm she just putting on
Tina they could sell I could fit in it faces nervous
but then we started would look after her from home
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the from
at mid-day the lifeguards into the water at the north end of the beach
on
on
the head straight to a favorite spot a whirlpool
they called the sucky motor
fellow lifeguard Matt joins in the fun
that
on
pool
poll
that is quite scaring for the ride
splashing around in can see you got washing I
it's like going to washing machine just being
thrown around and the smalls by learn more
world
the sounds of the lifeguards can be detected from several kilometers away
that sound travels four times faster and several times further in water
than it does in a and and with their highly tuned hearing
any dolphins in the area would be acutely aware of the lifeguards presence
and
imagine you sit somewhere and you can hear everything and everyone to make
sounds with them
510 kilometers around to sell it's an incredible
a cacophony of sound that comes into me into your years
its fish that produce sounds 0
it's crashing waves it's of course added noise from from human interference
goal
this coast is home to more than 500 bottle nosed dolphins
they often room together in small groups of 15 or more
they're all part of a complex social network
on
it's thought that loan females in their cars tend to stay closer to the shore
where food is plentiful and they are less exposed to predators
the new the males are less predictable
and wonder further optional but often return to compete for the females
of
old back in the bay the lifeguards are still riding the serving to the world
like Rockies daughter Nikki is caught by a big wave and thrown onto the rocks
giving happen proven things that they had a always good uniting
he loves showing them off at the end of the day the you've got the biggest game
no material in come or he will
Wow after a while and we've got bored with the
sucky mitre I asked the girl to play with her
ok for our normal training swim across ocean bay
I
people
and we just went home goes with chatting away
relax I'm got stuck into it
you
in
home
it
out in the open sea the lifeguards are exposed
more
hand as events would later reveal there is a great white shark in the way
but the man opportunist
it follows the coastline looking for the slightest hint of brain went home
its black back barely visible from the surface
this
tonight 100 meter swim which is quite a challenge for the novice when a
the girls have done it a number of times but this is really a good
test for Helen were encouraging Helen the whole time does
but you're the pretty confident so many white mean
every now and then I'll sneak onto the chair that their head for the lead in
half to
woman just got towed along he did not budge
well but
Nikki's cut is still bleeding
the lifeguards have now been in the water for 20 minutes and a half way
across the bay
helen is finding it hard work
I'm
determined to prove myself that I could do it the parliament and
but I'm tired I'm I'm
tried not to show up there would have been obvious I was I'm
time I keep you know how to dating profile
you know something on our backpacking brain but and my legs and had them
them
in terms of her ability out in the
in the water I had no concerns both nicholas
Carino were extremely good life and
ratio 321 with 10 who
given the world more than a safety margin though the otherwise
expect in that situation with an obvious lifeguard
way
on
this more on the Sharks brain is dedicated to a sense of smell
than any other creature
it can detect blood from hundreds of meters away
on it
the lifeguards
are not the only ones in danger
dolphins are regularly attacked and killed by sharks
and any dolphins in the bay would have been tracking it very closely
on we know that this conflict between
dolphins and sharks because over 75 percent to the docklands
in our research area have shark bites cars no janet mann
has witnessed several shark attacks on dolphins we've same
sharks take some large chunks have
that often something we think it they couldn't possibly Helen recover from
that kind of a wound and yet they do
ok
the young cards are most vulnerable and any mothers in the baby would be very
nervous at the shocks presence
I'm the moment
a
the
from a hundred meters the shock locks onto the swimmers vibrations
closes in
there
yeah
I'm
rain
up
with a loved one then they're being kraina freaked out
looking because of it one learn than we thought it was a shot
but we could just see the fear a rise in Iran specially Helen
one second there's nothing Mexican
there's a thing screams a shock and i sat down on a the Dell
dolphins you know ever and it's kinda break the siren
because word from sofas performed so well hume
rock
the lifeguards carry on swimming across the bay
on but as they would later discover
they're also being shadowed by a great white shark no the Dolphins
stay with them on
this I'm
when yeah
on
I'm
a dramatic series of events is unfolding
first the lifeguards recall seeing two dolphins in the water
on but how could they defend against a great white shark
the behavior that I've seen several times when they encounter a large shark
is to stay on top the Sharks have mobbing the shark testing right on top
of it
and that kind of behavior seems to
push the shark at the area for lifeguards would find out
the shock in ocean bay is over four meters long
then more dolphins appear
the only be one or two in his timing on more turned up and I got close way
these dolphins just closed in around us
Khudobin stopped them from swimming any further
the Thailand Open would come near me I'd be down here in the 1i like China
follow-up
the scientists believe that the other dolphins
could have been called from several kilometers away
Vincent your next pioneering work is beginning to unlock the secrets of
dolphin communication
and he thinks they may have used a special call
the recall to alert other dolphins the scores used to attract a lot of times
and
we know this from feeding contact for the animals produce that when they
and held on March fish that on the more difficult to capture
but it's very very appears on a track titled often
the break on is a low frequency sound which can travel up to fifteen
kilometers across the oceans
to marry like the one in New Zealand animal above created something like a
break for
that attracted other animals back to the location where the
then maybe block and that ban would allow them to
to show their normal kinda response to the shark attack
before long more dolphins arrive on the scene
no
the lifeguards have swam with dolphins before but this is the first time
they've experienced anything like this
I
did not expect them to come in and go why I am coming and going away
these just mention stayed close in to the point where
we could reach and touch them
we didn't really know what was going on and I do with a hundred and black
wealth on
the lifeguard still have no idea there's a shark in the water
and the think the Dolphins are threatening that bro
they became quite intimidating and briefly
events will make you and mean like dive and maybe
suddenly so that you would call up into a ball because you don't wanna kick by
morning
the
there about sitting down and they were
massive they would %um doe and
or totally confused as to why they were so
cleaner yet we couldn't work it out headway
upset when the baby's head weave pose a threat to turn
dolphins have been known to attack more even kill when provoked
by the mouse can be quite aggressive especially during the breeding season
and were we've seen some very serious fights
with males knock each other completely out of the water
they're extremely powerful animals on
none of the Dolphins make physical contact with the lifeguards
but they circle homes owned mining morning can do is train more than that
Robbie tries to break down but is forced back into the groove
on were unable to move we couldn't swim out a bit or anything like that
they wouldn't let up and we will keep them drifting with them
litter staff in the Middle East Oakland even the slightest opportunity
the great white shark could strike
I was confused I had a lot of thoughts going through my head
this point because this was bizarre behavior
came part circling moved us closer and closer together so that
eventually we would really impacting time
line
just how can the Dolphins coordinate their behaviors so effectively
where the hunting in groups or swimming in formation dolphins display an
exceptional degree of organization
recently annexed workers providing tantalizing clues to how they do it
he recently discovered just as humans call each other by name
dobbins do the same thing are using their own unique signature would
I these are examples of signature whistles
this particular pattern years recurrence again here
and that's the same animal producing and signature whistle now
the really extraordinary thing about them is that bond often can copy the
signature was over another one so in that way I can actually use it to
address an animal to find an animal
am it's very similar to to human calling in a min
the same happens and opens up the door open here that's all sing it shows will
turn around and will respond so it's a very effective system
not only to identify yourself but also to find specific individual
for now we can only imagine what other information dolphins are capable of
sharing
and how they might use it to coordinate a response to a shark attack
this
15 minutes after the Dolphins appears the lifeguards are still trapped in
drifting towards the south end of the way
but this is just the beginning have a terrifying ordeal
it
cotton the Dolphins become even more aggressive ok
them
a
it
on
on when the house making snotty terms 10
I'm that's just something I've never seen that close
on
on and
some would go away come bed intact under a they were just really hard
the house flipping with furious right is there
really had an clay here
going *** *** *** this reeling in teen
the time
enjoyed both they were just going to do startling tower
and that we were actually undertaken
go
the Dolphins have actually forms a protective wall between them and the
shop
the
janet mann a seam detail slapping behavior many times before
on
tell us the strongest part of their body very powerful details
and as both a percussive effect that makes a very
loud sound and also shows their strength
so if there had to tell you about something they make had their tails on
the water
to show may be a loner stop doing what you're doing
and it could be because as a shack in the area it could be because
another Darpan is harassing them
no it's not known
what prompted the tail slapping perhaps the shock tried to attack
are
well we're still
the men could have been more than one mir
with
them
on as it opens became more agitated
and I was getting more nervous them how to confront are from the freemen
yeah it did water what are they doing what's going on here
and you didn't know what to do it and
main kraina with panicking on
seeing them react how they do it because they had previously from
opens May me more nervous in lunchroom refrigerator
on
ok
at that point that was when I was most
up
and just carried on on on on
the Dolphins have now been circling the lifeguards for 30 minutes
and they're still showing no signs of backing off
something in the vacuum wonderful with him with some other
factor in here that we haven't yet worker what it is
so me there's a there's this
its the the number of emotions feelings and thoughts
that go through your head when you pick him
water temperature is 17 degrees and the girls are becoming cold and tired
Robbie is desperate to get them back to shore
and we were just won't written down the beach and I could see people on the
beach watching
and I'm problem being very jealous that the swimmers
surrender but don't think
but what happened next gave the clearest indication of what the dolphins were
trying to do
it got to the point where I needed through
find out what was going on and the opportune time carrying
I just kicked butt distance between myself on the main group
on
grana freaked out and I thought so but
people
I was only about 10 meters away from me 300 opens and I realize that Helen
come with me
I I wanted a hug didn't really going are kinda like well I think leaving me
at the mill Greenwood panicking and jumping on each other thing
the Aurora it was just a real
you're fine time we didn't know what to do well robie's break how to split the
lifeguards and made it even harder for the Dolphins to protect them
you have any I'm the Dolphins stay with Nikki & Kareena
but out in the open Robbie in Helena in grave danger
that ok
so large Duncan just come at us
pulls Spain firms
and we'll it was not a member
yeah
ride turned in the water and
got shock upon
the it was like a primal reflex and it was the instant recognition
on of what everybody
great want me was just huge
ok
I'm suddenly this sensible relief came over me because
my baby wild
was causing the worst whom and
realized but the the doping actually try to deter
be a tank those coming in on him the
for Lori mono the Dolphins response to Robbies breakout confirms her remarkable
the dog behavior news what's special about this new zealand incident is the
fact that
the Dolphins had to infer that these people were in danger
and consciously make a decision to act on that
they put themselves actress to help the people
NF best pure altruism
and then every parent's worst nightmare mom
probably shocked direction we're going so it was heading in the direction that
making cream
that's when my heart when the pantomime now a
on a realized before shouted shock making Korean with panic
can break at them circle dolphins and become vulnerable
it
a
I could see the dolphins around Nikki & Kareena we're going ballistic
the water was absolutely boiling which would indicated
that the dolphins were aware that the credit to lose heading in a direction
on
them
the
worst-case scenario was there was going to be a lot of blood in the water
i know i who is trying to
work and of how the hell I was going to
deal with it I bass but I was prepared
not do oh my fight have to be in the doping
ok
doctrine the family would like grazing with
live in the water I'm me you know
just trying to drown each electronic get away from a
this just chaos that's it chaos lost
were stuck in the middle of it all
that
the
at that point
the IR beam can back in which I could hear complete
on
so it will split second there was a sense of relief like everyone else on
the beach
Matt things Robbie in the girls are playing with dolphins and wants to be
part of the fun
at some distance from the group dicey trend
with all the noise in the water no one hears match shout
and the boat is heading rapidly back to shore
and
on market hidden mildly
disappearing into the distant and have sensors
helplessness
so we've now had park-like grounds in the world
shock collided opens and there's nothing you can do
you just have to let things writing something that
d
dolphins heard the lifeguards back together
this time robbie is relieved to be back inside the circling dolphins
match also decides to keep quiet about the shaman
that
the Dolphins have now been circling the lifeguards for an extraordinary
45 minutes go
I'm them
there's another change in the Dolphins behavior
on
will still treading water is still the air things I T
but the Dolphins loosening grip and the so
behind became bigger
and it just got a friends that
the dolphins were telling us the shot at goal
just as quickly as they appeared godot means leave
going on
you
I got the lifeguards are left alone
old gonna
for the on
I'm
theme disappear all
I actually felt quite comfortable about point
a bit stunned but comfortable
and all we can to get back to normality
it seems their ordeal is almost over
a everything and let them freaking
with another lebed special about what happened in New Zealand was the fact
that there was no ambiguity
in the event there were several people
that witnessed in the morn ball not just one
we have the predator we saw the Great White and
i win offer a very long time the forty-five minutes
and so is pretty clear what was going on we didn't have to guess
and that was what makes that an extraordinary example
a dolphin behavior
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and 13 gone to about infringes free
huge cyber lame
it was those relief to let you know be out but would not be removed from the
situation
be removed from all the emotion and over no
feeling that we had before the invite you know been
really like that to be harm to be fair
to be a bit the back in my company fun them
my the Minutemen name
did some strange reason decided his woman %uh
gun
and I'm in a way angry because they don't want them to still be in the water
knowing that
it was alright but he def profanity or chrome
and that was that and
your people do us by: swim back when everyone else got the boat back in
I'm you know I wasn't going to let the situation because I
from and determine how one with the rest tomorrow
the New Zealand Rescue is the clearest case yet
dolphins come into being
after so many years studying dolphins in the wild
i've been struck with how much they care
about who they're with and when there with them
and that they do have deep emotional lives
even though they don't show any initial expressions and just recently
it's been discovered that the part of the brain involved with emotions in
humans
is also highly developed in dolphins good
this story's love dolphins protecting and rescuing
people are perfectly in keeping with what we know about them
on scientific grounds sell their big brains their
level self-awareness in there emotional bonding
and their behavioral abilities I'll tell you that this is an animal that may
very well be capable true empathy
in the same way that unions are capable love and if that's the case
the Nets very special in the animal kingdom theme
jewelry evidence suggests that dolphins are capable of feeling compassion for
another species
and that they could indeed come to the rescue with human beings
on rule
it wasn't until the following day
but Robbie told the girls they have been a great white the world
I had no idea that there's a shot the water with us that day
when Nikki told me on the school bus in the morning
adjust the penny dropped in a made so much sense why the dough friends were
sipping a
I work was kinda relieved in a way that I didn't know
because I hike shop you know the diff being
even with the world knowing it was dope and going crazy around a
compared to what it would be like when you do that great what
without it has been a mi when
about nine that would open to protect nothing day I'm so
grateful towards them for putting their on life
on the line for a is amazing
the more the extraordinary events of that day in New Zealand
touch the lives of everyone involved
Robbie still continues to train new recruits
Helen overcame her fear of the water when she went on to qualify as a
lifeguard
war
exactly what prompted it opens to save the life guards will never be known
but the rescues in the Red Sea
and New Zealand are remarkable testimony
to the Dolphins intelligence and ultimately their willingness to help
another species
the given the way we often treat dolphins
it's humbling they're prepared to save us in our power movement
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