The pod has been bringing us regular gifts, showing us how much they’re missing the public interaction and attention.☹️This behavior reminds me of the primitive South Sea islanders who became accustomed to the stuff the military brought to their island during WW II. The war ended, the military went home, and a “cargo cult” sprang up where natives would build crude replicas of airplanes in hopes of decoying the military and their largess-laden planes back to the island.
Since the restrictions have eased we have been able to reopen the dolphin feeding & cafe.
Put a smile on someone’s face and come spend some time and feed these beautiful creatures, they are definitely missing you all🐬
It wouldn’t surprise me if dolphins are trying to use their version of ‘magic’ to lure tourists and their snacks back to the lagoon, a sort of pelagic ‘cargo cult.’ Oddly, it just might work for the dolphins, it didn’t for the islanders.
