The relationship between sharks and dolphins is a long-known fact.
Sharks are cautious of the aquatic mammal and do their best to avoid them, especially
if they are grampus.
Simultaneously in the stomachs of some sharks, we found parts of dolphin.
How can it be that such fearless predators are afraid of cute and playful dolphins?
Let's take a look at this.
Why are sharks afraid of dolphin?
Dolphins are mammals that live in pods and are quite clever.
It's well known that dolphins are not as harmless as they seem and know how to protect themselves.
When they see an aggressive shark, they immediately attack it with the whole pod, not giving the
shark any chances of survival.
This is why sharks tend to avoid pods with many dolphins.
Dolphins have some advantages over sharks due to the way their body is built.
Dolphins are generally more agile in their habitat than sharks.
Their upper fin makes them very flexible.
The combination of soft skin and a flexible skeleton structure allows them to be efficient
in a fight.
The vertical tail of the shark is flat, and limits their up and down mobility, while dolphins
have horizontal tails that allow them to have great mobility and a quick way to change directions
in a fast attack.
The heads of dolphins have very thick and very strong skin and act as a biological battering
Ram.
Dolphins can be several meters under the shark, and then quickly swim upwards and slam their
snout into the shark soft stomach.
This will lead to serious internal traumas.
When they have to defend themselves, they will protect each other from the shark's attack,
with their massive snouts that they use to hit the gills of the shark.
A well-placed hit can cause enough damage to kill the shark.
Therefore, they can surround a shark and hit her gills first, before the actual attack
on the stomach.
In a way they just frighten the shark until it swims away itself.
Sharks are predators who swim alone, while dolphins travel in groups.
So-called pods.
Every time a member of the group is in danger, the rest will come to help them.
There are even known cases where dolphins saved humans from sharks.
There just needs to be two or three dolphins and the shark will prefer to stay away instead
of clashing with them.
Sharks like to attack targets that are smaller than them.
For example, small dolphin babies.
When they decide to attack a baby dolphin.
They usually can't escape an attack by a pod full of angry dolphins.
The biggest advantage of the dolphins however, is their intelligence.
By using echo location, they can move fast in the water in order to avoid or to attack
sharks.
A shark's biggest chance of killing a dolphin is when the shark is hidden away from their
sight since they are silent predators.
When the first try is unsuccessful, the dolphin can easily swim away or regroup to fight together
with the rest of his pod.
Additionally, dolphins are incredibly fast.
Dolphins also have the advantage of speed as they can swim faster than most shark species.
Of course, the biggest advantage dolphins have over sharks is intelligence, especially
through echolocation, when dolphins send sound waves through the ocean.
According to the data provided by organizations supporting whales and dolphins.
One third of dolphins living in the waters off Sarasota Florida, have scars from incidents
with sharks.
That's why in some parts of the world, sharks are considered to be the biggest threat to
dolphin.
However, there is one more dolphin species that scared white sharks.
It's the killer whale, the biggest representative of dolphins, and they hunt for white sharks
when they don't have enough food.
They use their massive and strong tales to flip the sharks over and make them immobile.
This is why white sharks prefer to flee from killer whales immediate.
As they are, especially interested in eating their liver.
With extreme precision, they take out the shark’s liver and throw away the rest of
the body.
No wonder sharks are afraid of them.
What do you think, would sharks be afraid of dolphins?
If they wouldn't swim in pods?
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