http://www.standard.net/stories/2011/09/20/killer-dolphins-committing-porpicide-california It was a clear case of what scientists are calling "porpicide," the deliberate slaying of a harbor porpoise by a surprising and, to most people, unlikely culprit. "We suspect that it was a bottlenose dolphin," said Bill Keener, a harbor porpoise researcher for the Bay Area chapter of the American Cetacean Society. The brutal battering wasn't an isolated incident. Scientists say there has been a dramatic increase in dolphin attacks on harbor porpoises along the California coast over the past few years, including a recent attack off Half Moon Bay. Well over 50 harbor porpoise deaths are believed to have been caused by bottlenose dolphins along the California coast since 2005, when the first fatal attack ever recorded in California was confirmed. A study published this year in the Marine Mammal Science journal documented 44 fatal attacks between 2007 and 2009, mostly off San Luis Obispo and Santa Cruz and in Monterey Bay. I completely blame this franchise. Notice this started in 2005, and grew between 2007 and 2009...Coincidence?! Bottlenose Dolphins are incredibly smart, they must be pissed that this franchise is ruining their good name. Hopefully the movie "Dolphin Tale" calms them down until the draft. If we don't get Luck...all hell will break loose in those waters. Who knows? Maybe Dolphins will start to take over the land a la The Simpsons.
