wow!

I cant believe what I'm seeing. That is soo awesome!

That is just absolutely astounding and amazing.

*beautiful

"who can take the sunrise, sprinkle it with dew, cover it with choc'late and a miracle or two...oh, the candy man can."
...wait that's not the song.

I couldn't downvote this if I were paid to. By the power of Greyskull I summon this video to the top of the top 15

This video is seriously gorgeous.

Oh wow! This might be the thing I've seen on the sift that hits me the hardest.

more..more...more...more

Man and I thought my smoke rings were good!

Holy crap!

Wow!!!

aww... and it looks like you've melted BillO's heart up there

Ok, that totally blew me away.

The more I look at this, the more I think this is the best video I've ever seen on VideoSift.

aw, they're living in captivity... how cute everyone...

Hey guy, I kinda got that feeling about it too. They're obviously bored to tears and are trying to entertain themselves.

that music sounds like a chamber rendition of "The Candyman" (i.e., "Who can make the sun shine?")

Anyone who downvotes this is a communist! Heh, seriously, this is freaking amazing.

I'm going to wait to cast my vote until someone can explain to me how this happens. If this is real, upvote and I'll agree, its a thing of beauty. If its fake, downvote (nah probably just no vote) and a "why do people feel they need to do things like this?" comment.

Ok google proves it. Bubble rings are real. Upvote!

The music is 'No one is Alone' from 'Into the Woods' by Steven Sondheim.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Amazing-Bubble-Rings-Being-Blown-in-Pool-114

this is why i don't pay people to kill animals just so i can eat them.

they are alive dammit. they think, they love, they get bored.

Beautiful...

The power of the ring, it's everywhere!

Awesome video.

Re Mink: You realize dolphins are Carnivores, right? They eat a ton of thinking, loving fish.

Re GuyIncognito and Fade: I don't have any ethical problem with the situation these dolphins are in.

they're just as much trapped in captivity as we all are.

I do believe this must also be the most beatiful, peaceful thread ever on the sift!

>> ^rottenseed:
they're just as much trapped in captivity as we all are.

i like my cage. i put posters up and everything.

and i blow smoke rings. and enjoy it just as much as they do.

with or without a prefrontal lobe.

One of the best videos I have seen on this site. Amazing post.

wow.. i give up tuna

*sigh*...I wish quantumushroom were here to see this

>> ^rottenseed:
sigh ...I wish quantumushroom were here to see this


Bwahahahaha!!

Great, i just saw the video of the Dolphin Ring... does this mean some creepy dark haired dolphin is going to crawl out of my monitor and kill me?

If only they had opposable thumbs... they could take over the world - RUN!

Hang on... It's a coded message...

So... long... and thanks... for... all... the fish.

WTF is that supposed to mean?

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

Probably very self-aware, but somewhere down the line from humans I think. Sentience is a very gray sliding scale IMHO. Some humans are not very sentient.

Make me hungry for Mahi-mahi. I got to go open me a can after this.

The music is "You Are Not Alone" from 'Into the Woods" by Sondheim.

I like how he/she chomps on the little bubble.

Wonder how old they are when they find out they can do that with that hole in their heads?

That's pretty crazy. I was surprised that they could blow a bubble ring to begin with, but then, when they reshape into another and discard the rest? Wow...

rychan:
i should eat animals because dolphins do?

the female preying mantis devours her mate after sex... so, you gonna advocate that too? it's NATURAL!!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYp_Xi4AtAQ

>> ^dag:
Probably very self-aware, but somewhere down the line from humans I think. Sentience is a very gray sliding scale IMHO. Some humans are not very sentient.


IIRC cetaceans(dolphins, whales etc) are always half asleep, one hemisphere of the brain keeping them swimming/breathing at a time. They are doing this VERY complicated activity with, as Rush Limbaugh likes to say, half their brain tied behind their back.

While their brains are no doubt wired much better then ours for complicated 3D comprehension, to be able to model and direct a complicated system of invisible hydrodynamic flows in such a way as to maintain a vortex which will hold a ring of air underwater contrary to its buoyancy, and to do it as a learned behavior is more evidence for sentience then I have seen from any human I have ever met.

>> ^MINK:
rychan:
i should eat animals because dolphins do?
the female preying mantis devours her mate after sex... so, you gonna advocate that too? it's NATURAL!!!!

It's better than talking our heads off after sex.

Amazing! Those dolphin looked like they were having a whale of a time. I heard a dolphin tried to teach Mike Tyson how to do that. It got frustrated and gave up. Damn, I hope Mike doesn't see that.

I had the pleasure of seeing this once at the Vancouver Aquarium, save the bubble blowers were Orca killer-whales. Very cool.

>> ^bamdrew:
aww... and it looks like you've melted BillO's heart up there


HE HAS A HEART????

>> ^MINK:
this is why i don't pay people to kill animals just so i can eat them.
they are alive dammit. they think, they love, they get bored.


And they also taste delicious.

how on earth are those things keeping neutral buoyancy for so long??

I nominate dolphins to take over everything starting Today! We obviously have no reason to be in charge anymore.

Its a shame about the bio-accumulation of toxins and climate change and all that.


Man humans are such dicks.



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^are you seriously bringing that up right now?

>> ^residue:
how on earth are those things keeping neutral buoyancy for so long??


I read the explanation posted in a previous comment, and it sounds like they make a rotating column of water (with their tails?), then shoot a bunch of bubbles into it - centrifugal force (from the rotating water) pushes the bubbles outward, and presumably some sort of friction where the rotating and non-rotating water meet keeps the bubbles from escaping. Even more impressive is that they're able to analyze the quality of the ring and then decide to blow another one to augment it, or if the ring is poor they'll let it go. These things are damned smart, it appears.

I don't think they sleep with half their brain at all times (as dgandhi referenced), rather that when they do sleep it's only 1/2 brain at a time. I'd love to be able to do that - shouldn't take more than 1/2 a brain to watch tv or mow the lawn or something.

>> ^moonsammy:
I don't think they sleep with half their brain at all times (as dgandhi referenced), rather that when they do sleep it's only 1/2 brain at a time. I'd love to be able to do that - shouldn't take more than 1/2 a brain to watch tv or mow the lawn or something.

I just found a ref on this, EEG studies show that dolphins are in half brain sleep only 8hrs a day, so the answer to my IIRC is no I did not recall correctly Learning to do the bubble vortex thing is still pretty damn impressive though.

I didn't watch this at first because the thumbnail looked like something I had already watched. I'm glad I accidentally clicked on it now.

MOAR!

I am proud to upvote this to 200. Although I don't know what it has to do with cats n' dogs.

How did I possibly miss this video?

That is unbelievable. Almost as much as this exceeding 200 votes, and so quickly!!! Congrats laura.

Seem plee on cray obb luh!!!

i wish we could still *nominate

>> ^lucky760:
> Seem plee on cray obb luh!!!

oui. et très *happy

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that is the coolest thing ive ever seen

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best suited for Nature channel

The world may never seem the same to me knowing other animals can perceptibly and knowingly conceive art. Wow. Just... wow.

O.K., so what!! I could probably do this if I had more time in the bathtub as a child!!!

MINK (love that name!!) says:

the female preying mantis devours her mate after sex... so, you gonna advocate that too? it's NATURAL!!!!

I say: Yes, it happens to me frequently, and I LOVE it!!!

it's been a while

*promote a happy Friday!!!

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How the hell did I miss this?! *promote

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