Dolphins

Because mother dolphins nurse their young for so long-eighteen months or about as

long as human mothers nurse-the mother child bond is very strong. A dolphin will not

desert another dolphin who is in trouble even if it costs them their own life. When infant

dolphins are trapped in tuna nets, their mothers will try desperately to join them. Then

the mothers will cuddle close to their babies and sing to them as they both drown. The

tuna industries official acknowledgment of this remarkable phenomenon is that most of the dolphins killed are mothers and infants. Although there are improvements, even the “dolphin-safe” nets used to catch tuna continue to kill dolphins.