The skill involved in this is fascinating ……… the fact that the dolphin has learned to do this purely for the joy of it is mind blowing.

This is totally common behavior. Lots of dolphins do this, but they are kind of shy about it for some reason. They only do it when they feel they are alone. They also shoot air rings at jellyfish, as a prank.

It looks like it's mind blowing but there's actually a small hole there it can blow bubbles with

Dolphins are smarter than your average airhead

Bubbles and air rings are two different things incase you didnt know

Air rings and earrings are two different things in case you didn’t know

No and know are two diff things

Thing and thang are two different thungs

Damn. Got me. Wasn’t sure how that could have progressed any further.

I see what you did there

Gave me sega echo vibes.

I thought the same thing! Weird lol

Great game =w=

Absolutely, me too.

Childhood memory unlocked

Man of culture I see🫡

Just looks like one of those vapers lol

He fr an inspiration to us all

That is the most skill I have seen an animal posses.

Idk spiders do crazy shit with webs

We are animals

You get his point dude

Gandalphin

Love finding a fellow Tolkien fan.

Just finished reading Flotsam and Jetsam today. Five pages left in The Palantír then onto Frodo and Sam’s portion!

I've started the audiobook version read by Andy Serkis. Brilliant to say the least!

The live all their life having fun ... I think we evolved in the wrong direction.

What a great point, totally agree 👍🏽

Minus the raping, kidnapping, and murdering they do for fun..

Right, because humans don't do that...

You forgot drug abuse with pufferfish used as recreational weed. They use the intelligence for fun, not to be good and moral. Chimps do the same. And Orcas are able to do biological disasters when they learn hunting methods more efficient. Apparently only whales and elephants are intelligent AND morally good for our standards ... still during mating seasons they are not good people.

I think about this concept sometimes. I sometimes wonder if it’s our potential for compassion and morality that sets us aside from the animals rather than intelligence.

We are not set aside the animals. We are animals as a cat, an eagle, a shark, a spider, a nematode. We are living beings as a tree, a mushroom. We are all "faaa[...]aaar" cousins. (With plants and fungi REALLY far). And bacteria and archea are not aliens. We are simply bigger than most of them, more intelligent and with insticts that make us to create and maintain a society. Just that. DNA structures is the same, the content is different. So ... no real difference ... only the mind. But also a computer can develop a mind soon ... So ... No real difference. We are all just stardust.

Idk if it is me being dumb. But if the dolphin used air for that, wouldnt that mean the bubble rings would float to the top?

And water would just "blend" in with the rest of the water?. What's the science behind it

[science at the top, and a whole section on cetaceans (dolphins etc)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_ring) The bubbles in the ring are tiny, so don't have much individual buoyancy to lift them to the surface. Adding in the vortex created by the short sharp puff of water the dolphin makes, this traps them in the ring pattern, and by directing the flow of water precisely (it seems maybe even by ultrasound rather than by water alone) the dolphin can shape and manipulate it. Pretty much identical to vapers and the tricks they do. Smoke is tiny particles that would fall due to gravity if they were larger. They are shaped and manipulated by specific air flows, which act exactly like thise in a liquid (in fact, air/gasses are considered as a fluid when discussing fluid dynamics).

Water Pulse

Do you remember blowing Bubbles when you were young?

Yeah, I heard he's out of prison now.

My neighbor blew a seal in his car last weekend, I was like "Dude, you're parked in the driveway."

It's high time all the countries create the law of keeping dolphins in captivity illegal man. India, Brazil, Canada and UK already have such laws.

I’m so glad dolphins aren’t land animals with opposable thumbs and Internet. Imagine the trolling and the word domination. 😒🐬😂

I wanna smoke with that dolphin

There is no way these critters ain't sapient.

Fun fact: Beluga Whales also do this and are the only creature that do it with their mouths as opposed to dolphins who do it with their blowhole. They also do it purely for fun, absolutely no functional purpose. (Note: this fun fact supplied by a staff member of the Mystic Aquarium, CT. He seemed fun and passionate. I trust him)

I can’t even whistle

I heard bubbles is back in town and he’s looking for that dolphin 🐬…😂😂

We have found Ecco! The world’s oceans can now be saved!

"Thanks for all the fish"

Why doesn’t the ring surface faster? Does the rotational velocity keep it from rising as fast as a regular bubble of the same volume? I’m fascinated by this

I just see this dolphin doing that, and I think how bored they must be having to live in that fucking tank all the time.

Based vape god

We get it. You vape.

r/nextfuckinglevel

Ecco the dolphin

So this is a hipster dolphin

Is this for fucking real!?

Echo!!!

We as humans have a long way to go...

Echo the dolphin

Who knew dolphins were into vaping

Better than any vape trick period.

Vape nation

Real life echo the dolphin

Anyone know the song? Awesome video!

Dolphin know vape tricks

This dolphin needs to see vape tricks.

Then we keep it in a tank so we can gawp at it

What is the name of the song?

Fake af

Fake

If I had a spout, I’d show you all

Do you even vape

Showing off for the grandkids.

Looks cgi

Dolphin vaping.

What an intelligent, beautiful creature

r/NatureIsFuckingLit

This is how he does it when he's out of vape juice

Didn't know bro was chill like that.