Contrary to the belief of much, the dolphin ambassador is not a species but one individual
resulting from the one of the forty six and some existing species. Some delphinologists
do still not agree to define the exact number. The term appeared in the years sixty
ten, the time when all the most mystical beliefs were of topicality. One thought
whereas the dolphins approaching the man fulfilled the role of emissary of their
species, carriers of a message informing the mankind of the brittleness of the underwater
world. With phenomenon of Monkey Mia, name dolphin ambassador had been spread. Obviously
them people satisfied with this theory are unaware of that an animal like the Large
Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) belongs to a coastal species, which it is thus logical
to cross close to the shores. Many scientific studies show that Tursiops is usually
coastal. The ambassadors are the marginal ones or elements with strong personality,
which develop a sharp curiosity and choose a life out groups it for better apprehending
the others alive creatures. These dolphins there are more undertaking that the others.
Dolphins from Monkey Mia come on the beach not only for food but also to enjoy curious
spectacle of the homo-sapien, with its hairy arms, its long legs, its shorts with
flower and its cumbersome cameras. The commander Cousteau had put forth the assumption
according to which certain females were rejected of their clan for sterility. An
assumption that it recognized later very daring and unjustified: solitary females,
with the example of Yotsa at sea Adriatic, or Oleen in Egypt, became mothers. In
any case, quality of ambassador is not recognized by the scientists, and it is so
much better. These animals convey a kind of dream for the land ones that we are,
it is essence. In spite of the term relatively new, it is difficult to define which
dolphin was the first ambassador, one can suppose that its history proceeded in the
Mediterranean in ancient Greece if one refers to the writings. Being given the blur
caused by the arrival of Christianity in Western Europe, it is necessary to wait
well a long time to find writings reporting of history of friendship enters dolphins
and men. It some miraculés all the same there but which had quickly to yield with
the cruel laws of the men! Here are most representative: “Gabriel” in 1814 in England
and “Pelorus Jack” in 1988 in Zealand News were both only Historical representative
of the 19th century. The first had finishes captured to be exhiber in London and
died during its transport in the train, as for the second, it accompanied the ships
returning to the port but anything moreover, timid returns of the Cetacea towards
the world of the men! “Carolina” says “Snowball” Attended water of South Carolina
in the USA in 1950. Its albino white skin had been worth to him this nickname of
“Ball of snow”. It also was captured for a zoo in Florida. Opo still in Zealand News
had become an alive icon in 1955. First dolphin ambassador has to be filmed. This
Delphine attended the beach of Opononi from where its name. She preferred the children
with the adults and expressed sometimes signs of dissatisfactions by striking surface
with water with her caudal fin. In 1956, a specific law protected the Cetacea. In
spite of that it fur found dead wedged enters two rocks certainly victim of a technique
of particularly destroying fishing, fishing with dynamite. A statue had been set
up in its honor. The maoris said that it was reincarnation of an explorer unloaded
on the beach of Opononi. In 1971, Dolly was can be the first dolphin soldier in the
world of civil, I would say civilized people! Dolly which S 'a beautiful morning
in front of the house of the Asbury family was presented had become true member of
the family. The Asbury family lived in in the keys in Florida in a house giving on
a narrow channel. Jean, the mother had become little by little the adoptive mother
of the Delphine. Jacques - Yves Cousteau had carried out a film on this history and
said: “It would seem that the animals, especially the dolphins, recognize noble-heartedness
of certain human beings. There is at Jean Asbury a maternal love, a radiation which
did not certainly leave Dolly insensitive and it is a quite great mystery there.
It had been said that patience and the extreme benevolence of Jean acted on Dolly.
Their adventure was before very sentimental and maternal”. The Delphine army for
“indiscipline had been rejected”! It had been found then only begging fish with the
human ones. Its forced captivity had undoubtedly placed it in a position of assistantship.
Nina in Spain in 1972 accompanied the yachtmen by the port of Corogne. The commander
Cousteau had sent the scenario writer Jacques Renoir to film the Delphine. All the
notable ones of the city worried about the Delphine. The newspapers devoted whole
pages to him. Nina, who did not have initially be that a local character, had become
a national heroin. The tourists flowed at the edge of this small insulated split
and the single bar was ready to crack. The price of the ground had put itself at
once to go up and people made fortune. Romeo of Naples in Italy which began its interactions
in 1985 had largely to defray the chronicle by its sometimes extreme behaviors. Here
the account of Carola Hepp, a young journalist German: “I visit returns to Romeo
in 1987. Beach, I call the dolphin while making tinkle a small bell. Romeo arrives.
On several occasions, the dolphin tries some sexual approaches. Once it manages to
introduce its penis under bathing suit!” Oleen in Egypt in 1994 binds friendship
with a young deaf and dumb fisherman. Abid' allah, discovered Oleen, blessée, swimming
around L `one of his/her companions killed by ball; not far from it, the young man
also saw the body of a baby dolphin, empêtré in a net. It put at the world another
delphineau, a baptized female Mapsutta, which seems in full form. Both delphines
continued to accompany the bathers, which seemed completely normal for Mapsutta,
accustomed since always to the proximity of the man. They arrived always together,
sometimes accompanied by other dolphins. The Delphine accepted fish of the hand of
the man like the majority of the “Tursiops aduncus”. Randy called also George, Dony,
Léo and others, must its multiplicity of the nicknames to the fact that this dolphin
visits several different areas since 2001. Undoubtedly it is atypical of the dolphins
ambassadors. Randy not being badly strolled, it is not how after several months of
observation that Association Irish Dolphins could make a bringing together thanks
to photographic stereotypes and affirm that George, Randy, Dony, Flipper and Leo
were in fact one and even dolphin! In April 2001, it is observed, for the first time,
in Ireland, in the County of Kerry where there remains three months. The Irishmen
call it Dony. In July 2001, the dolphin disappears and arrives in August 2001 close
to the La Rochelle, and to the island of Yeu to France. It slips by then towards
Normandy. French prénomment George or Randy. On March 28, 2002, it is seen in Great
Britain, close to Weywouth, its name it is Flipper! It goes then in the north of
France with Dieppe, Le Havre, Dunkirk and Boulogne-sur-Mer. In December 2002, Randy
arrives on the Belgian coast. In Antwerp, one calls it Leo. On December 13, 2002,
Randy penetrates in the middle of zones inhabited while crossing a channel! He is
in Holland! At the time of its passage in the channel, of the open locks remaining
so that the dolphin can regain the broad one but it remains among the men. On December
24, 2002, it is back towards Belgium. Later the dolphin is found in Brittany in France
in company of another ambassador, Jean Le Floch, another atypical dolphin. …
