A dolphin’s "sexual behaviors" toward humans cause a French town to ban swimming
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/28/a-lonely-dolphins-sexual-behaviors-toward-humans-caused-a-french-town-to-ban-swimming/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6a26ffaadf8f
People eager to spend the waning days of summer frolicking in the waters near a coastal town in northwest France might want to rethink their plans. It isn’t safe, according to local
officials, who recently banned swimming and diving in the area.
But the danger threatening visitors to the beaches of Landevennec isn’t a vicious rip current or a shark — it’s a lonely, “lovelorn” male bottlenose dolphin nicknamed Zafar.
For months, Zafar has been known in the Bay of Brest for his unabashed playfulness, even allowing people to hold onto his dorsal fin as he takes them for rides, the Telegraph reported.
But the dolphin’s interest in humans now appears to be driven by the need for company of an intimate nature, the French newspaper Ouest-France reported. “He is in heat,” one marine
mammal expert told the news site.
Zafar has been seen trying to rub up against swimmers and boats or kayaks, Le Telegramme reported. In other instances, the dolphin prevented a female swimmer from returning
to shore (she was later rescued by boat) and lifted another woman out of the water with his nose, according to the French news site.
While his name translates to “victory,” Zafar’s various attempts to satisfy his needs have not only fallen short but prompted Landevennec’s mayor, Roger Lars, to issue a bylaw banning
swimming and diving near the village’s shoreline whenever Zafar is seen in the area, Ouest-France reported. Visitors and locals, Lars said, were becoming “frightened” by Zafar’s
behavior, according to Ouest-France.
“I issued the decree to preserve the safety of people,” he said. According to the Telegraph, people are also now “forbidden” to get within about 50 yards of the dolphin. The “aggressive”
and “pushy” antics are not unusual for a dolphin in Zafar’s situation, Elizabeth Hawkins, lead researcher with Dolphin Research Australia, told The Washington Post. Zafar is what
researchers call a “social solitary dolphin,” meaning for some reason he has been isolated from other dolphins and is now a “social outcast,” Hawkins said.
The way Zafar’s behavior has progressed is also common among these lone dolphins, said Lars Bejder, director of the Hawaiian Institute of Marine Biology’s Marine Mammal
Research Program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa.
“The animals slowly become more and more habituated to human activities, which humans then like, but in that process they typically become more and more aggressive, which
sounds like exactly what’s happening now,” Bejder told The Post.
No one has been injured by Zafar yet, a fact that has motivated locals such as Erwan Le Cornec to challenge the swimming ban, Le Telegramme reported. Le Cornec, a specialist in
environmental law who enjoys swimming with Zafar, told Le Telegramme he plans to take legal action against the “excessive” decree.
The ban also serves to protect Zafar from an unfortunate fate common to solitary dolphins: untimely death at the hands of humans. Habituation, or becoming used to human contact,
can lessen a dolphin’s natural instincts to be aware of potential threats, leaving them vulnerable to getting hit by boats or abused by people, Hawkins said.
can i get a non pay wall source
Open in incognito, works every time
Erwan Le Cornec is probably going to get raped by a dolphin or worse. Fucking idiot.
Everytime a rapist dies, i swear they get reincarnated into Dolphins.
Dolpins seem to be one of those strange scenarios where it's basically mutual zoophilia where both some humans and dolphins are curious about fucking each other simultaneously.
In literally every thread with WaPo, this happens. And in every thread, it is said to open it in a private tab. It's 2018, we should all be pay-wall evading ninjas.
You know something sex related is bad if the French ban it.
Is this a case of bonafide dolphin incel?
Isn't rape if its consensual
Male dolphins can kill you by accident though. Even female dolphins can be dangerous as they will try to drag you into deeper waters. With their vaginas. Yep.
non le hoh hoh oui oui du homo dolphín merci beaucoup
dude what the fuck.
how do you kn..
nevermind
Browsing the internet for almost 15 years and expecting not to randomly learn weird shit is like parachuting through a jungle and expecting not to hit a branch.
So is this dolphin like an animal equivalent of a furry? Oh, god, what would that even be called - skinny or fleshy?
This is Dave, my fleshsona.
This is all Tudd's fault.
Where did Snorky touch you?
Dude did you not know that dolphins post regularly on the internet??
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/109703/d57921db-a647-4069-a5b0-059a9ca73a9b/24485.jpg
'day 353 they still dont know im a dolphin' etc
Fucking rad. I mean disgusting.
Maybe it's one of the origins of the mermaid myth, who knows.
How the fuck?
Dolphin vaginas apparently have pretty sophisticated sets of strong muscles inside of them so if a human sticks their erect dick in without being prepared a combo could occur where his member is locked in while the female dolphin drags the person down into the deeper waters.
I was thinking like they envelop like half a person's body and drag them down.
Are you telling me this dolphin has a god damn people fetish
Why do I get the feeling this is going to result in one or two french people DELIBERATELY swimming in search of dolphin dick
They would more than likely not be the first ones.
I was thinking they had a giant hand in their vagina that could shoot out and grab you, stealing you away into the unknown.
*sadly tears up flight ticket*
I think on facepunch back in ‘08 somebody posted this blog about a guy who was super into dolphins. He worked at Sea World and talked about his sexual experiences with both male and female dolphins.
He explained how a dolphin dick can lift something like 25 pounds and would destroy your anus if you let him cum in you.
Yeah that was probably that, did not fully recall that it was a facepunch post, but given how dedicated I am to the site and through how many of it's eras I went through it makes sense.
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