It brought a smile to my face and a tear to my eye.

thanks! I needed to see this.

The great mystery for me is why we are dominated by those who are.

Look around. So you see many people limiting their number of offspring to one or even two? That will have to happen to save most lifeforms on the planet. It's a most unpopular stance but I'm there.

Thx for reading.

How a wild animal can understand this and voluntarily cooperate. It's just amazing to me.

It hasn't lost any of its intensity.

When my daughter was in school out there (Kona side of the Big Island), we went on one of those night manta ray dives. She was scuba certified, but I have f***ed up eardrums, so I couldn't go any deeper than surface snorkeling. We saw neither dolphins nor sharks, though apparently both are common there. But the manta rays came swooping in like slow motion aquatic birds to feed off the plankton that was attracted to the lights installed on the ocean floor. It was REALLY scary getting off a boat into the water in pitch darkness. But once the lights were on underneath and the manta arrived, half the time, I almost forgot to breathe. It was THAT spectacular. These fish came right up under us and started doing somersaults within less than a foot of us. As in, "you guys came for a show? We'll give you a show!"

Thanks for the thread, Omaha Steve.

It's been studied and proven..

http://themindunleashed.org/2014/07/this-is-a-proof-that-dolphins-have-human-like-intelligence-and-their-own-language.html