An Age of Magic

Have some seaweed dear

Just imagine it: it is your first date and you really want to impress her so you book a fine restaurant, buy some great new clothes, slap on the cologne and turn up at her door. You knock, she answers, and you present her with a bouquet…of seaweed.  If the door does not get slammed in your face immediately then there is only one reason why…she is a dolphin.

That’s right. The way to a lady dolphin’s heart is with a nice wet clump of seaweed fresh from the ocean bed. And apparently it never fails for the guy dolphins!. A group of dolphins in Brazil were observed for a period of time when the males were noticed to be carrying various objects around the females during the ‘wooing’ ritual. Assorted objects were sticks, pieces of debris but it was the seaweed that did the trick.

We all know how intelligent dolphins are but how fascinating to know that they even have a ‘culture’ of courtship, something that is behavioural and not genetic. How romantic. But are all male dolphins as clued up to what women want as human males are?…maybe not. Probably that’s why we never saw Flipper with a wife.

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