The NOAA Fisheries Service and the Marine Life Aquarium of Gulfport, Miss., working with a number of other partners, rescued the last four of the eight trained bottlenose dolphins that were swept out of an aquarium tank torn apart by the storm surge of Hurricane Katrina on August 29. Normally held in captivity, the dolphins don’t have the necessary skills to survive on their own. They have survived various injuries and predators and have stayed together since the storm. … read more here http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/s2510.htm .
And isn’t this a beautiful picture, http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2005/images/katrina-dolphin-rescue-09-2005.jpg .
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.
So they stayed together after the storm (“collectivism”, tsk tsk) and then, by the look of the photo, they all turn up at bloody dinner time (“welfare dependence”, additional tsk tsks). Bunch of bludgers if you ask me. Put two against the wall and the other six would discover the freedom to fend for themselves as individuals in very short order.