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And they aren’t even human! – A beach resort in the U.K. has warned swimmers to stay away from Georges, a bottlenose dolphin who arrived there two months ago, after following a ship across the English Channel, because he keeps trying to lure swimmers out to sea and mate with them.

“This dolphin does get very sexually aggressive. He has already attempted to mate with some divers,” says marine mammal expert Ric O’Barry. “When dolphins get sexually excited, they try to isolate a swimmer, normally female. They do this by circling around the individual and gradually move them away from the beach, boat or crowd of people.”
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While there are other intelligent animals living on the earth with us, only a few can be called conscious or self-aware. If you put a mirror in a cage with a bird, he will think he has a new friend. Dogs and cats scratch at mirrors, not realizing they are really seeing themselves. Now scientists have proved that dolphins can recognize their own images in a mirror.

This is a very rare ability that up until now has only been shown in humans and great apes, according to researcher Lori Marino. Marino and colleague Diana Reiss studied 2 teenaged dolphins. They put a mirror in a small, round pool that was connected to a larger, oval pool by an open gateway. The mirror was positioned just inside the gateway so it could not be seen from the larger pool.
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