Super Sized Myths!
- Episode aired Nov 14, 2007
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A two hour super size Myth Special - Sharks, Airplanes, Rocket Car, Cruise Ships.A two hour super size Myth Special - Sharks, Airplanes, Rocket Car, Cruise Ships.A two hour super size Myth Special - Sharks, Airplanes, Rocket Car, Cruise Ships.
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- TriviaShark's fear of dolphins is well documented. Dolphins are vicious apex predators in competition for the same food source. They outnumber the solitary sharks, can easily outmanoeuvre them, and are highly intelligent. Orca (the largest species of dolphin) actually prey on Great Whites and take advantage of the biological oddity that means sharks lose consciousness when flipped onto their backs.
Dolphins also scare pufferfish to make them release their toxin, then play volleyball with them because pufferfish toxin is dolphin catnip (and absolutely fatal to humans!).
- GoofsThe dolphin keeper just lied. Dolphins are not, and have never been, "natural caregivers" and having worked with them for so many years she was fully aware of this fact. All the rules people are given before swimming with dolphins are for the human's safety, not the animals. Injuries to people working or swimming with them aren't uncommon and training them is a dangerous profession. There's even a film, Blackfish, about how deadly dolphins are. They're also smart enough to have worked out that any help they give to humans is repaid in food. Meaning they have ulterior motives for their apparent care, an act that takes no effort on their part. The Keeper was simply perpetuating the myth about dolphins as cute defenders of humans, whereas their behaviour is actually like any other predatory mammal. They're far more like a pride of lions than the agency of nannies people like to imagine.
- ConnectionsFeatured in MythBusters: The Search: Fast & Furious Ejector Seat (2017)
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