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OK, fine -- we're not totally sure that a pod of dolphins forming a life raft to help a dying dolphin breathe is what's actually happening here. Are we being snookered by the overwhelming desire to anthropomorphize one of our very favorite animals? Sure, maybe. Watch the whole video, though and tell us you don't think that what you're seeing is dolphins trying to save -- or at least help out -- one of their own. It's very, very hard to do. We should also point out that while the video below is amazing, must-see stuff, it also centers around a dolphin in very ill health, and may thus be NSFW, depending on how comfortable you feel totally crying at work.

Looks like the robots' insidious plot to displace all of mankind from their jobs even extends to our friends in the animal kingdom. The Navy is planning to reduce its reliance on mine-detecting dolphins -- and seals -- in favor of more sophisticated unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs). While the Navy isn't planning to begin this initiative at least by 2017, this certainly doesn't bode well for dolphins who have mouths to feed in this tenuous economy. So long and thanks for all the pink slips.

Whenever the phrase "attack dolphins" happens to be uttered, the typical imagery that comes to mind is of Cold War operations that trained the aquatic mammals to perform various tasks, like hunt for mines. This is apparently not true for everyone, however. Even today, some governments are supposedly training dolphins to kill. Specifically, the Ukrainian navy allegedly wants to outfit dolphins with head-mounted pistols. That's a comforting thought.

Photographer Chase Jarvis and explorer Mike Horn were traveling off the coast of South Africa, about one hour south of Capetown, when they experienced what is known as a superpod of dolphins. A superpod is what it sounds like, and is an absolutely enormous pod of dolphins, numbering into the thousands. Jarvis recalls that there were so many dolphins, and the pod so thick, that "you could have walked across their backs had they been game for it." Check out the above video they made with the footage they managed to capture. It's seriously amazing.

Like barbecue ribs and whipped cream (which is, surprisingly, not bad) or cookies and ketchup (which, unsurprisingly, tastes exactly how it sounds it would), the above video shows another extremely unlikely combination--a cat and some dolphins. From the side of what appears to be a boat or dock, the cat, adorably named Thunder, nuzzles on some dolphins that seem to be petting Thunder with their noses. Adorable.

(Super Punch via Neatorama)

These dolphins aren't just being cute in this CNN video because they think their reflections are other dolphins. They are actually recognizing themselves and enjoying their own reflections, proving that their intelligence surpasses your regular, everyday sea-dweller. (CNN via Icanhascheezburger.com and Jezebel)

The LA Times recently reported that Guy Ritchie is off of the Lobo movie so that he can spend his time making a sequel to Sherlock Holmes. To which we said: "They're making a Lobo movie?!" Apparently: yes, since Joel Silver affirms that Warner Brothers is still interested in everyone's favorite genocidal Super Saiyan, space biker, KISS fan and dolphin lover; just with a different director.