Just thought of another one. When I was in high school a good friend got a part time job at a place called the World Dolphin Foundation. They kept a pair of young dolphins in a man-made lagoon on Key Biscayne in Miami.
Something about mammals in captivity, they get bored, real bored. Being in the days before MTV and X-Box, what's a higher order mammal to do? You guessed it! It was how they did it that was intriguing. The female dolphin developed an attachment, literally, for my big toe and adjoining appendages. The male dolphin on the other hand had a thing for knees, the backside. Both would take you for a ride in their own ways and at a few mph too.
Complications set in when you had the guy pulling on one side and the girl on the other with you in the middle. Talk about getting divided by attention. This happened once when one of the dolphins though this was enough and jumped out of the water landing on us. Ouch, that is a lot of mammal to go smacking around.
Other stories out there?
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