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Dolphins Blowing & Manipulating Bubble Rings in the Water!

posted by laura 1 year 10 months 1 week ago • 20201 views
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wow!


written by kulpims  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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I cant believe what I'm seeing. That is soo awesome!


written by Thylan  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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That is just absolutely astounding and amazing.


written by cheezric  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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*beautiful


written by BillOreilly  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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"who can take the sunrise, sprinkle it with dew, cover it with choc'late and a miracle or two...oh, the candy man can."
...wait that's not the song.

I couldn't downvote this if I were paid to. By the power of Greyskull I summon this video to the top of the top 15


written by rottenseed  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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This video is seriously gorgeous.


written by castles  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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Oh wow! This might be the thing I've seen on the sift that hits me the hardest.


written by oxdottir  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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more..more...more...more


written by evilspongebob  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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Man and I thought my smoke rings were good!


written by Fade  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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Holy crap!


written by callistan  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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Wow!!!


written by Woland  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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aww... and it looks like you've melted BillO's heart up there


written by bamdrew  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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Ok, that totally blew me away.


written by pmkierst  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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The more I look at this, the more I think this is the best video I've ever seen on VideoSift.


written by Woland  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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aw, they're living in captivity... how cute everyone...


written by GuyIncognito  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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Hey guy, I kinda got that feeling about it too. They're obviously bored to tears and are trying to entertain themselves.


written by Fade  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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that music sounds like a chamber rendition of "The Candyman" (i.e., "Who can make the sun shine?")


written by Trancecoach  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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Anyone who downvotes this is a communist! Heh, seriously, this is freaking amazing.


written by gwiz665  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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I'm going to wait to cast my vote until someone can explain to me how this happens. If this is real, upvote and I'll agree, its a thing of beauty. If its fake, downvote (nah probably just no vote) and a "why do people feel they need to do things like this?" comment.


written by Arsenault185  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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Ok google proves it. Bubble rings are real. Upvote!


written by Arsenault185  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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The music is 'No one is Alone' from 'Into the Woods' by Steven Sondheim.


written by 9875  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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http://www.videosift.com/video/Amazing-Bubble-Rings-Being-Blown-in-Pool-114


written by deedub81  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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this is why i don't pay people to kill animals just so i can eat them.

they are alive dammit. they think, they love, they get bored.


written by MINK  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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Beautiful...

The power of the ring, it's everywhere!


written by Fred_Chopin  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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Awesome video.

Re Mink: You realize dolphins are Carnivores, right? They eat a ton of thinking, loving fish.

Re GuyIncognito and Fade: I don't have any ethical problem with the situation these dolphins are in.


written by rychan  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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they're just as much trapped in captivity as we all are.


written by rottenseed  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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I do believe this must also be the most beatiful, peaceful thread ever on the sift!


written by laura  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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>> ^rottenseed:
they're just as much trapped in captivity as we all are.

i like my cage. i put posters up and everything.

and i blow smoke rings. and enjoy it just as much as they do.

with or without a prefrontal lobe.


written by my15minutes  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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One of the best videos I have seen on this site. Amazing post.


written by Hive13  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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wow.. i give up tuna


written by ambassdor  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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*sigh*...I wish quantumushroom were here to see this


written by rottenseed  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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>> ^rottenseed:
sigh ...I wish quantumushroom were here to see this


Bwahahahaha!!


written by Linz  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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Great, i just saw the video of the Dolphin Ring... does this mean some creepy dark haired dolphin is going to crawl out of my monitor and kill me?


written by 9258  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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If only they had opposable thumbs... they could take over the world - RUN!


written by Norsuelefantti  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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Hang on... It's a coded message...

So... long... and thanks... for... all... the fish.

WTF is that supposed to mean?


written by xxovercastxx  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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Probably very self-aware, but somewhere down the line from humans I think. Sentience is a very gray sliding scale IMHO. Some humans are not very sentient.


written by dag  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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Make me hungry for Mahi-mahi. I got to go open me a can after this.


written by 8266  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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The music is "You Are Not Alone" from 'Into the Woods" by Sondheim.


written by dystopianfuturetoday  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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I like how he/she chomps on the little bubble.


written by persephone  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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Wonder how old they are when they find out they can do that with that hole in their heads?


written by choggie  | 1 year 10 months 1 week ago | CH
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That's pretty crazy. I was surprised that they could blow a bubble ring to begin with, but then, when they reshape into another and discard the rest? Wow...


written by videosiftbannedme  | 1 year 10 months ago | CH
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rychan:
i should eat animals because dolphins do?

the female preying mantis devours her mate after sex... so, you gonna advocate that too? it's NATURAL!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYp_Xi4AtAQ


written by MINK  | 1 year 10 months ago | CH
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>> ^dag:
Probably very self-aware, but somewhere down the line from humans I think. Sentience is a very gray sliding scale IMHO. Some humans are not very sentient.


IIRC cetaceans(dolphins, whales etc) are always half asleep, one hemisphere of the brain keeping them swimming/breathing at a time. They are doing this VERY complicated activity with, as Rush Limbaugh likes to say, half their brain tied behind their back.

While their brains are no doubt wired much better then ours for complicated 3D comprehension, to be able to model and direct a complicated system of invisible hydrodynamic flows in such a way as to maintain a vortex which will hold a ring of air underwater contrary to its buoyancy, and to do it as a learned behavior is more evidence for sentience then I have seen from any human I have ever met.


written by dgandhi  | 1 year 10 months ago | CH
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>> ^MINK:
rychan:
i should eat animals because dolphins do?

the female preying mantis devours her mate after sex... so, you gonna advocate that too? it's NATURAL!!!!


It's better than talking our heads off after sex.


written by rottenseed  | 1 year 10 months ago | CH
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Amazing! Those dolphin looked like they were having a whale of a time. I heard a dolphin tried to teach Mike Tyson how to do that. It got frustrated and gave up. Damn, I hope Mike doesn't see that.


written by 8777  | 1 year 10 months ago | CH
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I had the pleasure of seeing this once at the Vancouver Aquarium, save the bubble blowers were Orca killer-whales. Very cool.


written by therealblankman  | 1 year 10 months ago | CH
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>> ^bamdrew:
aww... and it looks like you've melted BillO's heart up there


HE HAS A HEART????


written by JAPR  | 1 year 10 months ago | CH
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>> ^MINK:
this is why i don't pay people to kill animals just so i can eat them.

they are alive dammit. they think, they love, they get bored.


And they also taste delicious.


written by JAPR  | 1 year 10 months ago | CH
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how on earth are those things keeping neutral buoyancy for so long??


written by residue  | 1 year 10 months ago | CH
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I nominate dolphins to take over everything starting Today! We obviously have no reason to be in charge anymore.


written by youdiejoe  | 1 year 10 months ago | CH
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Its a shame about the bio-accumulation of toxins and climate change and all that.


Man humans are such dicks.



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written by Peroxide  | 1 year 10 months ago | CH
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^are you seriously bringing that up right now?


written by rottenseed  | 1 year 10 months ago | CH
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>> ^residue:
how on earth are those things keeping neutral buoyancy for so long??


I read the explanation posted in a previous comment, and it sounds like they make a rotating column of water (with their tails?), then shoot a bunch of bubbles into it - centrifugal force (from the rotating water) pushes the bubbles outward, and presumably some sort of friction where the rotating and non-rotating water meet keeps the bubbles from escaping. Even more impressive is that they're able to analyze the quality of the ring and then decide to blow another one to augment it, or if the ring is poor they'll let it go. These things are damned smart, it appears.

I don't think they sleep with half their brain at all times (as dgandhi referenced), rather that when they do sleep it's only 1/2 brain at a time. I'd love to be able to do that - shouldn't take more than 1/2 a brain to watch tv or mow the lawn or something.


written by moonsammy  | 1 year 10 months ago | CH
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>> ^moonsammy:
I don't think they sleep with half their brain at all times (as dgandhi referenced), rather that when they do sleep it's only 1/2 brain at a time. I'd love to be able to do that - shouldn't take more than 1/2 a brain to watch tv or mow the lawn or something.


I just found a ref on this, EEG studies show that dolphins are in half brain sleep only 8hrs a day, so the answer to my IIRC is no I did not recall correctly Learning to do the bubble vortex thing is still pretty damn impressive though.


written by dgandhi  | 1 year 10 months ago | CH
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I didn't watch this at first because the thumbnail looked like something I had already watched. I'm glad I accidentally clicked on it now.


written by jimnms  | 1 year 10 months ago | CH
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MOAR!


written by StukaFox  | 1 year 10 months ago | CH
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I am proud to upvote this to 200. Although I don't know what it has to do with cats n' dogs.


written by bleedingsnowman  | 1 year 9 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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How did I possibly miss this video?

That is unbelievable. Almost as much as this exceeding 200 votes, and so quickly!!! Congrats laura.

Seem plee on cray obb luh!!!


written by lucky760  | 1 year 9 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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i wish we could still *nominate


written by rottenseed  | 1 year 9 months ago | CH
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>> ^lucky760:
> Seem plee on cray obb luh!!!


oui. et très *happy


written by my15minutes  | 1 year 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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Adding video to channels (Happy) - requested by my15minutes.


written by siftbot  | 1 year 8 months 2 weeks ago | CH
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that is the coolest thing ive ever seen


written by 10040  | 1 year 8 months 1 week ago | CH
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This post has been removed from the Catsanddogs channel by channel owner youdiejoe. Please review the FAQ to learn about appropriate channel assignments.


written by siftbot  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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best suited for Nature channel


written by youdiejoe  | 1 year 7 months 1 week ago | CH
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The world may never seem the same to me knowing other animals can perceptibly and knowingly conceive art. Wow. Just... wow.


written by blankfist  | 1 year 7 months ago | CH
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O.K., so what!! I could probably do this if I had more time in the bathtub as a child!!!


written by Don_Juan  | 1 year 3 months ago | CH
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MINK (love that name!!) says:

the female preying mantis devours her mate after sex... so, you gonna advocate that too? it's NATURAL!!!!

I say: Yes, it happens to me frequently, and I LOVE it!!!


written by Don_Juan  | 1 year 3 months ago | CH
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it's been a while

*promote a happy Friday!!!


written by rottenseed  | 1 year 2 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Thursday, January 17th, 2008 11:20am PST - promote requested by rottenseed.


written by siftbot  | 1 year 2 months 3 weeks ago | CH
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How the hell did I miss this?! *promote


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Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Friday, August 29th, 2008 7:57am PDT - promote requested by Deano.


written by siftbot  | 1 year 1 week ago | CH
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*catsanddogs
*wtf


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Adding video to channels (Catsanddogs, Wtf) - requested by EDD.


written by siftbot  | 10 months ago | CH
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oops. I htink I should have done *reclaimvote


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Whoa.


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