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No matter how intelligent or cuddly you think they are, they are wild animals. Their reasons are always their own.

Film taken of gangs of dolphins repeatedly ramming baby porpoises, tossing them in the air and pursuing them to the death has solved a long-term mystery of what causes the death of so many of these harmless mammals – but has left animal experts baffled as to the motive.

Another mystery is that the animal ‘murders’ have only been reported in two parts of the world – along Scotland’s East Coast and in America off the beaches of Virginia, where even more alarmingly, the victims were scores of the dolphins’ own young.

The first clues to solving the riddle came in 1997 when, by coincidence, marine biologists in Virginia were finding young, dead dolphins with horrific internal injuries at the same time as young porpoises were washing up on Scotland’s north-east coast with identical causes of death. The body count was growing in both locations.

And that video is more sensationalist than it should be. Where are the proper scientists? When they start screaming, “Dolphins are tired of porpoisecide and want to use our blood for bathwater!” That’s when I tie the boat to the dock and run for the rockies.

(via dunc!, telegraph.co.uk)