听听看看国家地理: 海豚也攻击人?
第56期：Hunter & Hunted: Dolphin Attack
Dolphins are known as primarily peaceful marine mammals. But sometimes, dolphins attack human. The National Geographic Channel’s Hunter & Hunted investigates.
The dolphin slams belly against the concrete wall. Well the rest of tourists struggle ___1___ to the pool’s edge. The dolphins swim widely around the ___2___.
The dolphins were just swimming back and forth, and just make all kinds of rack and water was really ___3___.
Something has provoked these dolphins into a ___4___, and caused one of them to attack.
Four thousand miles away, on a beach in the southern Atlantic, another incident provides a clue in the possible lead to the case in Cancun.
Sao Paulo, Brazil, two men relax by the ocean, when a dolphin swims towards the beach. Excited about how close the animal comes to shore, Joao Moreira and Wilson Pedroso, ___5___ into the water, and approach the dolphin. The animal floats on the surface, and allows the men to touch it. The dolphin ___6___ both men, heading Joao hard in the stomach. It takes only seconds, but the results are ___7___. Joao will die of internal injuries, later that night. A man has been killed by a seemingly friendly wild dolphin, just a few feet from shore. But why did this animal suddenly turned violent?
“When dolphins attack people, it’s not because they have something out for people, it’s, and it’s not because they’re hungry, because they don’t eat humans. “ Dr. Toni Frohoff is an expert on human dolphin interaction. “People put themselves in position in which they stress dolphins”
“And one, one could expect that animal like that, but might be more likely to strike back if it’s ___8___”, Professor Greg Erickson, is a biologist at Florida State University.
“So dolphins sometimes have no ___9___, except to exhibit their displeasure through violent or ___10___ behavior. “
