Dolphin Trivia

Happy Friday the 13th!

Here at The Missy Show, we view Friday the 13th as a day of good luck!  It's the day for the launch of my new book, and it's also our dolphin trivia day.  As you know, tomorrow is our "Sexual Aggression in Dolphins: The Story of Peter" episode, so this blog post is a warm-up to get you guys acquainted with some facts about these fascinating creatures.  These facts are of the non-sexual variety, (except for one, anyway).  But will give you an idea of how intelligent and fascinating these creatures actually are.  Today's dolphin facts are courtesy of Fact Retriever:

https://www.factretriever.com/dolphin-facts

68 Interesting Facts About Dolphins (Though we're only covering 10)

• Called “re-entrants,” dolphins once lived on land and looked and behaved something like a small wolf but with five hoof-like toes on each foot instead claws. Dolphins also have remnant finger bones in their flippers, a forearm, wrists, and a few remnant leg bones deep inside their bodies.

• Dolphins have the longest memory in the animal kingdom.
• Just one-half of a dolphin’s brain goes to sleep at a time.
• A baby dolphin is born tail-first to prevent drowning. After the mother breaks the umbilical cord by swiftly swimming away, she must immediately return to her baby and take it to the surface to breathe.
• Dolphins get water from the foods they eat, so they don’t drink. They have the same reaction to drinking salt water as humans do: it would dry them out until they died of dehydration.
• Because dolphins are connected to their mothers by an umbilical cord inside a womb, dolphins have belly buttons.
• Dolphins can move each eye independently. They can move each eye up, down, forward, and backward, giving them nearly 360 degrees of vision.
• (Here's the sex one):  Unlike most wild animals, dolphins spend a lot of time enjoying sex and foreplay that is not determined by the urge to procreate or being “in season.”
• Dolphins do not breathe automatically as humans do and will die if given a general anesthetic. They must sleep at the surface of the water with their blowholes exposed.
• In 1971, the Navy dispatched a team of dolphins “armed” with large carbon-dioxide-filled hypodermic needles strapped to their beaks to guard a U.S. Navy base in Vietnam. The dolphins were trained to deliver a fatal injection in humans’ lungs or stomachs.

Well, that's it for now.  Remember our Missy Show episode airs tomorrow at a special time of 8pm Central on Google Hangouts, and will then be posted on YouTube.  This episode will have sexual content, so it's not suitable for children.  Listener Discretion Advised.

See you then!

This is your host J,

signing off...