Flogging the Dolphin, So To Speak...

I got a great chuckle the other day...

An email from KK:

Got this email (below) and attached photos from my brother, Dave. He's holding the Marlin in one of the pics. Dave's retired, lives in  NC. Now works for  yadda yadda yadda...
Thought you'd enjoy the pics & story. He's coming down to to visit at the end of the month. We're talking about chartering a boat and going deep sea fishing....brothers, sisters, inlaws, etc.....

K

 Here are a few pictures of our trip last Sunday. We took my boat and were out 45 miles from Oregon Inlet, 30 Dolphin and a small Blue Marlin. We had porpoise rubbing there bellies on the bow of the boat while we were trolling. My buddy reached down and rubbed their belly. Good day, the water calmed down as the day went on.
[snip]
The report says the dolphin are 8 miles off the beach. Hopefully we will load up again.

And there were some lovely pictures...


Mmmmmahi mahi! Yum!

But the knee slapper was the description about the Tursiops "rubbing their bellies" against the boat, and the guy rubbing the stomach of the porpoise...



I had to send her a note...

To: KK

You're going to love this:

The porpii weren't "rubbing their bellies"...They were masturbating.

Seriously...
Kathy from the DRC says that tursiops are the horniest mammals around *...

They have a problem with the males at the DRC "scrubbing one off" on the swim platforms in the lagoon during the public performances - having to explain the behavior to the tourists.
And the staff learns to get out of the water pretty quickly when the boys get frisky...

Looks like the fishing trip had a Happy Ending for everyone involved.

TBG

Gives new meaning to "Punching the Porpoise" eh?

I got a follow-up from her...

To:TBG
From: KK

I will never hug my brother again.
Won't even shake his hand. Nope. Never.

TBG- ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒE
*Arthur F. McBride, D.O. Hebb, Behavior of the captive bottle-nose dolphin, Tursiops truncatus, Journal of Comparative and Physiological Psychology, Volume 41, Issue 2, April 1948, Pages 111-123, ISSN 0021-9940, DOI: 10.1037/h0057927.

(http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B8H4J-4NRF32H-5/2/167b875e373c556c4a2c918c7e1365b7)
Keywords: TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS, BEHAVIOR OF; SPECIES, TURSIOPS TRUNCATUS; PORPOISE, BEHAVIOR OF; RESPONSE PROCESSES