Man's real best friend, the dolphin

Maybe we humans should make a better effort to stop killing dolphins, since they seem to be the only creature in the ocean looking out for us. Consider this story out of Monterrey, Calif. which seems to be capital of surfers eaten by sharks:

Surfer Todd Endris needed a miracle. The shark — a monster great white that came out of nowhere — had hit him three times, peeling the skin off his back and mauling his right leg to the bone.

That’s when a pod of bottlenose dolphins intervened, forming a protective ring around Endris, allowing him to get to shore, where quick first aid provided by a friend saved his life.

“Truly a miracle,” Endris told TODAY’s Natalie Morales on Thursday.

Then consider this:

In this photo released by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, activists and supporters from the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd who paddle out on surfboards to approach trapped dolphins in a cove in the town of Taiji in southwestern Japan on Monday, Oct. 29, 2007 to interfere with the annual hunt. (AP Photo/Sea Shepherd Conservation Society/Icon Images, Peter Carrette).

And then consider this: (Note the dolphin blood in background)