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By: TheJestPress.com
**The Foe You Know: Smaller Dolphins and Porpoises Cozy Up to Killer Whales for Safety—What Could Possibly Go Wrong?**
Move over, bodyguards—there’s a new personal security trend sweeping the Northeast Pacific, and it’s got flippers! Marine biologists have been left scratching their barnacles after observing smaller dolphins and porpoises actively seeking the company of the region’s most infamous gang: the fish-eating Northern Resident killer whales (Orcinus orca).
Yes, you heard that right: Flippa, Porpy, and friends are choosing to loiter around what scientists have dubbed “Killer Whale Row” like nervous freshmen hanging out with the rugby team in hopes that nobody picks on them. According to experts, these little cetaceans are “possibly seeking protection from other predators.” Or in dolphin speak: “If we get eaten, at least we’ll have made an impression.”
One porpoise, who wished to remain anonymous (and alive), confided, “There’s something oddly comforting about hiding behind a creature nicknamed ‘killer.’ I mean, what self-respecting shark is going to mess with me now?”
Dolphins, ever the opportunists, have also been seen using the killer whales’ slipstreams as makeshift carpool lanes, zipping past sea lions with a confidence bordering on audacity. “Safety in numbers, and style points in proximity,” chirped one particularly fashionable Pacific white-sided dolphin.
The killer whales, for their part, seem mystified by the sudden infiltration but have, so far, taken a live-and-let-live approach. “As long as they don’t touch our salmon, we’re good,” reported one orca, visibly annoyed by the porpoises’ constant requests for bathroom breaks during group swims.
Marine researchers, meanwhile, are delighted, hailing this as “the most adorable case of Stockholm syndrome ever recorded.” Conservationists see this as a hopeful sign of interspecies cooperation—or perhaps just another instance of animals looking at the harsh realities of marine life and deciding, “If you can’t beat ’em, swim next to ’em.”
By: TheJestPress.com
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