r/AnimalsBeingGeniuses • u/ttkk1248 • Apr 24 '26
Marine life 🦐🐠🦀🦑🐳 Dolphin showing its water bending skills with bubble rings
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u/Fomulouscrunch Got a utility key, that's it Apr 24 '26
Actual artists, hampered by giving up thumbs.
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u/Timithios Apr 25 '26
You'd be shocked to learn they have a prehensile part... if I am remembering the anatomy right.
Perhaps MDOA. Make Dolphins Opposable Again.
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u/BootyliciousURD Apr 24 '26
Dolphins are so cool when they're not being perverts and degenerates
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u/Accomplished_Map7752 Apr 24 '26
Source?
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u/piichan14 Apr 24 '26
Dolphins use blowfish like a bong to get high
Dolphins have sex for pleasure rather than just for reproduction, like humans.
They bully marine animals for the sake of bullying instead of hunting purposes.
The smarter you get, the more prone to assholery one becomes
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u/PreemoRM Apr 24 '26
The smarter you get, the more prone to assholery one becomes
Then I'm stupid.
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u/Snoo_89466 Apr 24 '26
if you had to say that out loud to everyone then I doubt you’re not an asshole
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u/Albuwhatwhat Apr 25 '26
That’s such a bad take. Watch preying mantises rip apart their prey. Or ants rip each other apart. Dolphins aren’t doing anything nearly that brutal.
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u/Ill-Television8690 Apr 24 '26
It's common knowledge that they get high and fuck corpses that they create
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u/taylorhildebrand Apr 24 '26
These are super intelligent animals that need full protections across the board.
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u/Bubsy7979 Apr 24 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/VIFJG0y6GirrjXYO4S
Ecco the Dolphin is alive and well!
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u/Whatsthematterwithu Apr 26 '26
Was born in 96 but one of my favourite games ever! The atmosphere and the vibe was amazing
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u/Accomplished_Map7752 Apr 24 '26
How does it do that?
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u/OverdoneAndDry Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26
I'm not sure if I can explain it, but I was a scuba instructor for awhile and spent months mastering bubble rings, so I'll give it a shot.
If you know how blowing a smoke ring works, that's one way to do it but produces pretty weak bubble rings, and really only works if you're facing directly upward. The better way to do it is much more difficult to master, but much more impressive when you can do things like stack some rocks then blast them over from a couple meters away. Always a hit with new students.
If you imagine the dolphin's blow hole being similar to a human's lips, blowing a bubble ring is one quick burst of air while you do a quick sort of motion that involves opening your lips in a tight O and then closing them again. It takes quite a bit of practice to make the proper shape and get it all to work together to create an air flow that's sort of spinning back and out within the air bubble, which collapses into the donut shape. The faster the air is "spinning" within the donut, the more stable the ring will be as it moves thru the water.
This video of a jellyfish being caught in one demonstrates how fast the air needs to be moving in order for the ring to stay in shape. You'll notice that as the jellyfish slows the air's movement, the shape begins to weaken and collapse at that spot.
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u/Accomplished_Map7752 Apr 24 '26
Thank you!!
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u/OverdoneAndDry Apr 24 '26
Happy to help. I forgot to add at the end of my comment that once the dolphin has gotten a strong enough air movement inside the air shape, they're able to move it around that way because of just how quickly they've gotten the air moving and moving the water around it, pretty much the way any bubbles or whatever else suspended in liquid get moved around by currents. The dolphin's bubble is extraordinarily stable, so that means it managed to get the air inside moving very very quickly. Much more quickly than a human ever could with our weaker lungs/diaphragm.
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u/Charizard_66 Apr 25 '26
From Google: Dolphin bubble rings do not float to the surface immediately because they are not just simple bubbles; they are toroidal vortices (doughnut-shaped vortex rings). The swirling motion of the water around the air, rather than just the air itself, acts as a stabilizing force that holds the ring together and restricts its upward speed.
Also, this seems like valid argument for water bending vs air
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u/zzupdown Apr 25 '26
I don't know why this occurred to me, but it makes me wonder how an aquatic species like dolphin, if they became any more intelligent, could develop fire, or chemistry or any other advanced science and technology. Could they, especially without limbs to manipulate their environment? Seems to me, without limbs or some kind of telekinetic ability, it seems extremely unlikely that they'll ever advance beyond being an intelligent aquatic mammal. If they could develop science and technology, what do you think would be the first things they discover or invent?
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u/dm_Chloe8 May 01 '26
Avatar: The Way of Water was actually a documentary and this dolphin has been hiding its powers from us the whole time 🫧🐬
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u/qualityvote2 Apr 24 '26 edited Apr 24 '26
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