‘in Wakasa Bay about 200 miles west of Tokyo, dolphin attacks have injured at least 47 people since 2022. Many of them suffered minor bites on their hands, but a few were rushed to hospitals with broken bones or wounds that needed stitches, most were reported in what one Japanese media outlet called the “dolphin threat summer.” One man told local media that he was swimming close to the shore when a dolphin bit his arm and tried to force itself on top of him, almost pushing him underwater, the next year, the attacks were concentrated on beaches down the coast near the town of Mihama. In 2023, 10 people were injured, a Fukui police spokesman said. In one case, a man was left with broken ribs, since July 21 this year, 16 people have been injured in dolphin attacks, mainly off the beaches near Mihama and the nearby Tsuruga city, according to local officials. Two of them had serious hand injuries that needed dozens of stitches’
poster have been put up warning people of the dangers of mixing with dolphins, it may be a single dolphin, Ryoichi Matsubara, the director of Echizen Matsushima Aquarium in Fukui, said that the photos and videos he reviewed of some of the 2022 and 2023 attacks appeared to show the same male Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin, Mr. Matsubara said the same dolphin may also have been responsible for this year’s attacks, although he had not yet obtained recent footage, in any event he would like people to stop trying to interact with dolphins, “People would run away if it were a bear. There is no difference between dolphins and bears in terms of destructive capacity,” said Mr. Matsubara, the aquarium director, “Professionals like us, we are scared of them,” he added, “but people who don’t know that think they are cute.” For the full article have a look here.
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