Jean-Le Floch (Extracted the book “Botschaft der Delfine” of Eric Demay Edts Kosmos)

Neuroses of Jean-Le Floch:

“Jean Le Floch east can be the most incredible dolphin which I could met. Its sector of predilection being based in Brittany, it had was necessary me to take the road with my old car prehistoric! The trip had started with more than 3000 kilometers carried out with the first last nights folded into two in my vehicle. (It will be necessary that I think one day of being changed car for more roomy!). Fortunately the weather was nice (a scarcity in Brittany!). The dolphin was very difficult to find and the very escarpée coast complicated my displacements. It is finally at the end of the afternoon in the port of Camaret that I met for the first time the famous dolphin. It remained close to a buoy right in the middle of the port. The accesses to water were so difficult that it had was necessary me to swim several hundred meters before joining it. Tired by the weight of my video box and by my eagerness, I arrived completely exténué at the meeting of Jean Le Floch. This last was surrounded the caudal fin with ropes like being made run. I had ever met a “talkative” dolphin also! It launched me all kinds of sounds to as various frequencies ones as the others. I was charmed because my camera was equipped with a microphone submarine. I really wondered how it could not run with as many ropes gotten mixed up around its tail. In fact, it was much more precise in its gestures than it did not appear. One had me much alerted on these atypical behaviors and everyone worried. There had even been one small problem: when a plunger had cut to the knife all the ropes surrounding the dolphin. But alas these ropes were used to fix the boat of a local fisherman what had slightly envenimé the situation. In fact, I remain still convinced that Jean Le Floch was prone to a psychosis near of a neurosis and can be even of a depressive psychosis maniaco-. This need to be liked, that one deals with him, led it to this kind of simulation of suicide, added with crises of self-mutilation. I had never met of savage animal with as many caused scars by its own behavior. But then how to speak about neurosis for an animal other than the man; it would in addition be necessary to regard the dolphin as equal of the man as regards the question of education and of the paramount role of the “early childhood” describes by the psychoanalysis. I could not prevent me from thinking of the theory of Cousteau who said that the ambassadors were rejected individuals of their group. Often it is true that the ambassadors have quite distinct characteristics. “U2” in Australia had this atypical aileron which could the “désocialiser”. Let us imagine at L “man, an uneven child who despite everything the rules of social integration and solidarity, in spite of him is rejected daily newspaper of the other children, in particular during adolescence. The thing could as well reproduce in the company however complexes dolphins. A dolphin known as “abnormal” could not be moulded at the company of a group of dolphin. I always put myself the question. Jean Le Floch had of such scar that the photo identification had become almost useless. Usually they are the catches of sights of the ailerons which make it possible to identify the individuals. This dolphin was single in its morphology, a true “mouth broken”! This dolphin did to me much sorrow as for its solitary condition. In Brittany the ports are large and little of bathers try to meet Jean Le Floch in water often cold. At the time of my first meeting, I had carried out video images very ordinary but the sound recording had been excel, I had never heard such frequency bands also rich. But the meeting had started late and as the night arrived I had decided to leave water. Jean Le Floch was as insane as soon as it included/understood my decision to leave it. He blew very extremely with his vent and stuck himself to me. He tested all the forms of seduction possible so that I remain with him. Whereas I arrived meadows of the quay and that I always did not change no the opinion, it was placed under me and raised me of all its body; thus I had almost my palms who left out of water and I had all the sorrows to advance. I thus stopped and I it looked at right in the eyes. There was much sadness in its glance, it was really pathetic, that burst me the heart. I spoke to him to explain to him why I was to leave and finally it let me regain the firm ground. Later I found it some times in medium from day always in a hurry in ropes or the head passing very close to of the propellers. I had not been able much to familiarize me with him because I had been obliged to leave it to meet others dolphins with Zanzibar in the Indian Ocean. I often think of him, Jean Le Floch is the dolphin which still raise in me much question.”