The Stir | Posted by Jacqueline Burt
Aww, come on! Really? Please don't tell medolphins are the latest creature to start chomping on people for no apparent reason. Dolphins are supposed to be friendly! They're like, the one animal besides bunnies you're supposed to be able to approach without fear. Except not anymore, apparently, because there's a "rogue" bottlenose dolphin terrorizing swimmers in Louisiana's Lake Pontchartrain. They say he's bitten 3 people already! When will Flipper's reign of terror end?!
Wait a minute, wait a minute. What's a bottlenose dolphin doing in a lake, anyway? Well, as it turns out, Flipper the Furious has every reason to be a little prickly with people. He was one of a small pod of dolphins who ended up in the lake after Hurricane Katrina; over time, the other dolphins swam to the open sea ... leaving this menacing mammal all by his lonesome. Of course he's a bitter bottlenose! And his sad story gets even worse... READ MORE >>