The myths we believe in №2

*"There was a dolphin named Dobryak, because he loved everyone and other dolphins, and other people. He never, never offended anyone, because he knew that they were friends. He loved to swim. Once he swam, swam and died of old age in the open sea. What a deep moral. After reading this work, I realized that we need a new issue of myths in which we believe."*

Dolphins, when we say dolphins, in our head we represent a bottlenose dolphin. And today we’ll talk about him, but first I’ll remind you what kind of a cute creature he is.

*"To the shore, he swims among the waves, he jumps up. I love you dolphin for who you are."*

And what kind of dolphin is he? We are used to thinking that he is kind, helps people, smart. We love the cartoon flipper. We watched a bunch of movies where these cute creations are shown. Dolphins are really smart, very trained and playful. Only now we seem to have forgotten that these are predators. And after what I will tell you now, most likely you will change your opinion about them. This is a dolphin, and this is a baby porpoise. Watch how they play briskly together. But for some reason the porpoise does not laugh, because she died. The dolphin killed her. On purpose? Maybe by chance, or maybe he just played and went too far and now swims and regrets his act? Here is a study that says most porpoises found dead on the northeast coast of Scotland had signs of dolphin attack. They had internal and external injuries, but the reason for this mess remains unclear, because they are not enemies to each other. They do not feed on them, but simply kill. But for some things you can still catch on, as you have already noticed porpoises are very similar in appearance to dolphins. And here comes another terrible fact. Dolphins are killing their children. And not because there is not enough money to study at a good college. There is also research on this. The point is that as soon as the female loses her baby, she is again ready for a new pregnancy. Dolphins males kill a baby dolphins to once again a female. This is some kind of game. And so back to the attack on porpoises. It is believed that dolphins confuse infants of different species and kill all in a row, and dolphins, and porpoises. These are maniacs. In 2002, a study was published that says that in 1997 many dead young dolphins were thrown onto Virginia Beach. They had rib fractures, lung ruptures, and bites that coincided with the teeth of an adult dolphin. In general, it’s sad. This is how they do it and it’s not at all funny. In August 2013, scientists watched a female give birth to a dolphin and two minutes later the baby was already attacked and wanted to kill him. Here's a shot of a mother pulling him out of the water so he can breathe. Now, unfortunately, it is not known what happened to him, but it is likely that they simply lagged behind him. Indeed, over time, the attacks ceased. Scientists say that males were nearby before birth, as if waiting for this moment. Creepy. There is even a video recording. We cannot understand why they are doing this. We cannot get into their heads; we are not dolphins. Thank you for this, I would not want my parents to kill me. In 1994, an incident occurred with a dolphin, with a dolphin killer, as they like to say in the press. But he actually killed the man. He swam ashore every day, hanging out with people. They rejoiced, even sometimes trying to cross the border. They tried to give him a beer. Interesting fact. In 1994, there were also many idiots. And what is the outcome? One has broken ribs, the other is killed. Angry dolphin. Then in 2014, the dolphin attacked people twice. Look, a dolphin by the name of Dustin hits a woman on the beach, and he doesn’t let the woman swim to land and kick her. Do you think it's hard to hit hard in water? No matter how. 6 spinal fractures, three broken ribs and a damaged lung. This is what happened to her. Her name is Valerie Ryan and she never could have thought that dolphins are capable of such, but she does not hold him angry. Still a predatory animal. And we underestimate the dangers. In general, in short, there have been cases both in the wild and in the parks. So be careful if you, like me, always wanted to swim with dolphins. Now I don’t really want to. Another interesting fact. Male dolphins can come together to find a female, chase her, intimidate her, using physical force. And all in order to do this with her. There was a lot of research on this topic and everything that I just called can be called rapists in one word, but here everything is more complicated. For us, this sounds like violence, but we are not dolphins and we do not know how the female dolphin feels at this moment. Maybe she generally buzzes, but most likely not. It's weird trying to run away when you like something. Nevertheless, if we drive dolphins-rapists into google, we will find a lot of stories.

*"From now on, I advise you not to use google anymore."*

Are they true? Undoubtedly they do this, but is it violence? Justin Greg, a scientist studying dolphin communication, says that this cannot be called violence. In fact, the female is not raped, but by such actions they are forced to choose herself for mating. As for me, this does not change anything, but I'm not a scientist and there really is a difference. Coercion, not violence. Call it that. It sucks anyway. In the last issue, we said that sharks are not what we think of them, but you should understand that dolphins are certainly safer than sharks, but we perceive them as good animals, and therefore we don’t expect a bite or a blow from them, but we need everyone Carnivores should be treated with caution.

*"Hey, they chased fish yesterday and drove them to a dead end. In they are stupid. Quiet, people are swimming. Oops, porpoise."*

Remember the cartoon “Flipper and Lopaka”, and so in real life it would be called Flipper and Shovel. The dolphin would calmly kill everyone on the island, and then bury it with his own hands. Based on real events, not soon in all movie theaters. And they have sex with their children. Enough is enough, you understand. Let's move on to less terrible myths. Now attention, there will be the best transition to another topic. You know that dolphins swim in the sea, but do you know who else was swimming in the sea? Mariners. One of these was Christopher Columbus.

*"They did a good job."*

For example, I remember that we were taught that Christopher Columbus was the discoverer of America. Remember how he traveled in 1942 on his ships, which were called?

*"Columbus had three more caravels: Nina, also Gordon."*

*"Pinta"*

*"Pinta, right. And Marco"*

*"Santa Marina"*

*"Santa Marina, well done. But Santa Maria will be right after all."*

In America, Columbus Day is celebrated on October 12, because it was on October 12 that he discovered America, but later changed the holiday to the second Monday of October. But what does it mean to discover America? If you think this means that he has sailed to a completely new empty territory, forget and never tell anyone at all. In America at that time there were a lot of indigenous settlements that had been wandering there for thousands of years. The discovery of America meant that Europeans would be there for the first time. Before that, they knew only the old world. ‘These are these places. But this is a new world. Unknown lands, but Columbus discovered them. After all, there is no doubt. Well then, I have a question for you. Why is America called America, not Colombia? And all because Columbus himself did not know what he had discovered. He generally traveled from Europe to India, because he knew that the earth was round, and if you swim here, you will sail here. Well, he tried, instead he came across the Bahamas, Cuba, Haiti, Mexico. In general, what we now call Central and South America. And he thought that he had sailed to the right place, and that he had finally reached Asia and, by the way, was sure of this right until his death.

*"There is Asia, there is definitely Asia."*

*"What, this is not Asia."*

*"No, there is definitely Asia and I will write in my book."*

*"This is not Asia, this is another continent."*

*"I don’t listen, there is definitely Asia."*

But this was not certain one person, also a traveler Amerigo Vespucci. He suggested that Columbus was a fool and did not fully understand everything and that the new lands found were not India and Asia, but completely new lands. And they were called the New World. America, as expected, was named after Amerigo Vespucci. The funny thing is that Columbus’s mistake was so imprinted throughout history. We now call Native Americans Indians. No one thought why? Yes, because Columbus thought that they were Indians, and that they live in India. Confused everyone.

*"Racist, racist."*

It turns out that Columbus is still a loser. Swam to search for one, found another in general. For all 4 expeditions I did not understand where he was, and the name of this place was given in honor of the man who found the same thing, only later. What? But that’s the most interesting. Neither Columbus nor Vespucci have ever entered this land that we call America. Then who was the first? There was such a Viking man by the name of Eric Torvaldson or Eric the Red one, the guys came up with the idea to drive him because he had a red beard. So he was a navigator and discovered Greenland, having founded a settlement there. Later, his son Leif Erickson, as in any rpg game, heard that a certain navigator says that he saw lands far, far, but he’s not sure. Well, the quest is received. Leif gathered a team and went far, far in search of new territory. This is a legend, but it should not be taken lightly, because scientists came to the conclusion that the Vikings were the first Europeans to reach North America. It was 400 years before Columbus was born and the Vikings called these lands

*"Greenland Arrow to my knee."*

*"Why Greenland?"*

*"I don’t know, let's fight."*

And this is straight North America, the same one. For example, in Newfoundland, scientists discovered early Viking settlements and it is very likely that in the future, scientists will find evidence that someone was there before them. The only thing true is that after Columbus everyone found out about the new world and expeditions began, mass killings of the indigenous people, slavery, and all that sort of thing. So, if someone tells you that Columbus discovered America, immediately counteract the fact that there was a pre-Columbian transoceanic contact. People will be shocked by what you said and will never argue with you or even talk to you again. But there is nothing to be clever. It will be a lesson to you. Europeans thought that Columbus was the first, but now, knowing the history of almost all countries and almost all peoples, new information is available to us that this was not entirely true. Honestly, would you yourself like it more, Christopher Columbus, the great discoverer, or the bearded smelly Vikings? By the way, about the Vikings, when they say the word Vikings, you imagine a huge bearded man, dirty, smelly, and he also has a helmet with horns. Here it is. It is not surprising that they are shown to us like that, but there is a very popular series, it is called “Vikings”. I am often compared to this guy from there. In this series, you will not find helmets with horns, because historians help him to shoot and he is trying to be reliable. In general, the Vikings did not wear helmets with horns. Anyone wore, the Japanese, in Denmark wore, but not the Vikings. Well, more precisely, maybe they wore it, but they did all this for ritual purposes. In battle, of course not, because it's just stupid. Some warrior will wave an ax and will surely hit you on a hat with a pair of horns on it. This is completely inconvenient, so nowhere and have never been found helmets with horns belonging to the Vikings. This is what the real helmet looked like. Ordinary, boring and correct, but where did this myth come from? August Malstrom in the mid-19th century depicted the Vikings. So with slightly visible horns. Around the same time, the great composer Richard Wagner wrote The Ring of the Nibelung. This is an opera in which the plot is borrowed from German and Scandinavian mythology. You should definitely know the part from there, often heard in films. But the costume designer for this opera was Karl Emil Doppler. This is a German artist and illustrator. This is how he portrayed them. Since then, the myth has spread and everyone around us thinks that the Vikings wore helmets with horns. Even in a store with details, it’s not a problem to find one, although there is no historical certainty in this. Oh yes, about the stinky bearded men who have no compassion. On average, these Harlanes had a height of 172 centimeters, and personal hygiene products, this is the most common that can be found at excavations in the burial sites of the Vikings. Tweezers, tweezers, ear sticks, combs and even soap. They say that they looked after themselves very much. Most likely they smelled even better than men after working in the subway.

*"Ay my nail."*

Most likely this myth was invented or embellished by monks and priests, since the Vikings were very fond of robbing churches and monasteries. In general, they knew from life what they wanted to do. To each his own. They at least decide. Thank you for watching, I hope you were very interested. I was interested, since of course I did not know this before I started doing the release. And to check the authenticity of my words, just look in the description to find all the necessary links. Thank you for watching and waiting. See you soon.