Rare dolphin stampede captivates onlookers!

[MoonRiver]

http://mashable.com/2013/01/09/dolphin-stampede/

[Skittles]

1. would I be the only one looking BEHIND

to see what they were fleeing from?

[MoonRiver]

4. Only if you were close to Taiji Japan. The horrendous yearly slaughter of these beings starts 9/1/13

[Bay Boy]

2. WoW!

That was worth watching!

[A HERETIC I AM]

3. Rare? I think the Dolphins would say.....

"What'd say mean "rare"? This is how we get around!"

[KittyWampus]

5. this is like Dolphin Burning Man?

[JHB]

6. Stampede nothing! It was the start of the big 50k flukerace!

[Scootaloo]

7. It's called a megapod. They're getting more common and no one is sure why

[Glassunion]

8. I'll take a stampede over a dolphin orgy any day!

Was paddling a in the bay on the gulf coast of FL. About 10 dolphins were hunting within feet of my kayack and it was awesome. However after they ate they became quite the sex show. I was too close and they almost knocked me in the water as they rammed my boat as I tried to paddle my ass out of there.

It was intriguing yet terrifying at the same time.

[kestrel91316]

9. 25 years ago I took a boat trip out to Anacapa Island off the coast of Ventura County.

On the way out, we were accompanied by a megapod. It was a thrilling experience.

When we got up on top of the island, w could see the pod as it circled the island clockwise. We estimated that it was perhaps ONE SQUARE MILE of dolphins, all within about a human's arm length of each other.

How many is that??? I figure tens of thousands. It was freaking unbelievable, but I saw it with my own eyes and so did a whole boatload of people.