Funeral ritual dolphins (3 photos)

It tells dailymail, these heartbreaking pictures show how people would call, a mourning ritual dolphins. Presumably, the mother dolphin lifted the lifeless body to the surface and accompanied by several other dolphins drags him into deep water.




The photographs were taken by tourists in China, during a sightseeing boat trips for dolphin watching.

Funeral rituals in animals are very rare, and even rarer is possible to remove the camera.



Adults Dolphins have repeatedly raised the dead calf to the surface, as if to help him breathe. But later they raised on the body to the surface and swam away from the shore to deeper waters.

Most noticeable wound on the stomach of a dead dolphin, and it is possible that he was killed by a boat propeller. Ironically, it may have been a tourist boat propellers.

While experts are not inclined to ascribe human emotions to animals, a behavior that show us the dolphins seem to indicate that they are at least aware of their mortality.



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