Do dolphins look after their sick?
They are famous for doing so, although this behaviour has rarely been observed in the wild. Dolphins stay underneath and at the sides of the sick and by doing so keep them close to the surface so that they can breathe. They do give up after some time though. Dolphins also have been observed swimming away from another dolphin entangled in a net. They might therefore have the ability to discriminate between situations, in which an attempt to save another dolphin’s life poses a threat to their own life and situations in which that is not the case.
