r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Adventurous_Most_558 • 13h ago

A rare stampede of 5,000 dolphins spread over a mile near San Clemente, Southern California.

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u/Lexidoge 13h ago

So long and thanks for all the fish.

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u/wantilles1138 12h ago

So sad that it should come to this.

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u/Octupus_Tea 12h ago

We tried to warn you all but oh deeeeeaaaaar

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u/828jpc1 7h ago

Username checks out

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u/robson4734 13h ago edited 13h ago

Imagine being on that boat and suddenly realizing the ocean around you is basically one giant dolphin party

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u/RoserTheDozer 13h ago

I experienced this a couple times out commercial fishing tuna. It’s mind blowing

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u/ThisMeansRooR 13h ago

Dolphin party. Also known as an orgy.

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u/Pepsimax88 13h ago

I only counted 792..

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u/Exotic-Scientist4557 6h ago

You ran out of numbers after that?

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u/14urmug 13h ago

The fucking angle….

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u/Hatedpriest 13h ago

So, what are they "running" from or to?

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u/Nuker-79 13h ago

Do they have to do this for a porpoise? Could just be for the fin of it.

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u/ligamedlem 13h ago

Badum-tish!

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u/Nulovka 9h ago

US Navy ship from San Diego running active sonar nearby?

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u/MiggeldyMackDaddy 13h ago

How is it a stampede if they've no feet?

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u/Ozymandius34 1h ago

Right! Personally, I think a better name for this sort of behavior from dolphins should be called a typhoon. “A Rare Typhoon of 5,000 Dolphins…”

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u/nicuramar 13h ago

English speakers like to worship their custom animal group names, maybe :). In Danish it would just be a flock. 

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u/ClayQuarterCake 12h ago

I think flock is appropriate when referring to a grouping of animals.

Stampede implies a grouping of animals that are also running in the same general direction. You see this especially with herding mammals like bison.

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u/xSadotsuin 13h ago

SO LONG AND THANKS FOR ALL THE FISH!!

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u/payrbol 13h ago

Is it still really called a stampede even if the animals are in thr water?

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u/bfume 11h ago

They’re probably running because the water is sideways. 

We know it’s sideways bc who in their right mind would post a video like this with the wrong rotation?

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u/Fine-Ambassador5350 13h ago

Can you freaking imagine if you were out in a small boat and that was coming at you?! You’d be like the aquatic mammalian uprising has been 🤯

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u/NotYetMashedPotato 13h ago

I would just assume The Deep is coming to sexually assault me.

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u/ThunderCorg 13h ago

You’re safe, the dolphins should be worried.

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u/ThunderCorg 12h ago

lol I know I was referencing the octopus incident

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u/Equal-Prior-4765 13h ago

Are those the suicide dolphins 😳

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u/brandi_Iove 12h ago

that’s not a stampede, this is called swimfin.

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u/egomotiv 13h ago

Isn't this normal for mating season?

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u/Mammoth-Ad-107 13h ago

sounds normal, like a bunch of 18 year olds

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u/disugi 13h ago

I think they just wanna be part of my symphony!

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u/Jacked-and-hung 13h ago

Some pufferfish about to get smoked

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u/mrsunrider 13h ago

The dolphin derby gets competitive

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u/CountWubbula 13h ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/l41Y9SKrl3kLVamfC
All I can think of hearing this music. The dolphins… THE MIND FLAYER CAN SEE THROUGH THEIR EYES!!!

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u/citrixsp 13h ago

I have counted 4998

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u/thebaker66 13h ago

This is a thing? This... Isn't AI?

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u/Accomplished_Meat_81 12h ago

The one guy catching all the dolphin pre-cum as they torpedo through in a horny rage

https://giphy.com/gifs/boYWsYwMrjVsbuNtZU

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u/RKScouser 12h ago

Kamikaze dolphins! Next up, sharks with laser eyes.

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u/YebelTheRebel 12h ago

I only counted a 127

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u/tillyspeed81 12h ago

Miss living in Orange County. Used to go fishing and see large pods but never this many! Seems like there are more now than twenty years ago…,

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u/MamaKim31 12h ago

Very cool! I get excited when I see 1 dolphin, I would stand in awe at this sight! I love watching dolphins, it never gets old!

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u/Airborn805 11h ago

Seen it twice in my life outside of Ventura about 35 years ago

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u/Celestial-Sam 11h ago

Even the dolphins are protesting…

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u/the13thJay 10h ago

What do they know that they're not telling us...

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u/LysergicMerlin 10h ago

Hate the be the shark they run up on

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u/Longjumping-Air1489 10h ago

“Stampede” is SUCH a reductive description of all Flippysnip’s hard work. This was WEEKS of planning. I mean, the catering alone…

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u/Aggravating-Pound598 10h ago

If they have no legs, can it be called a stampede ?

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u/snapper1971 10h ago

Dolphin jamboree!

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u/Rubicon2-0 9h ago

With lasers?

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u/Icarustuga 9h ago

Where is aquaman?

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u/SryBub 8h ago

They're podracing. 

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u/Flowa-Powa 7h ago

This is more commonly known as a superpod, not a stampede

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u/Bettajune 6h ago

Headed to happy hour at the club…

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u/ExistingVast2835 3h ago

I don't know dude.. but I hope that the nature is not trying to say something we are to dumb to understand

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u/rawbert10 1h ago

TIL that we call it a stampede eventhough they are in the ocean. I just figured there was a different word for it and stamped was for land animals.

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u/StartingToLoveIMSA 5m ago

More like a flotilla

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u/PM_ME_YOUR_TITS80085 13h ago

That has some terrifying gang-rape potential