{"id":230603,"date":"2025-07-02T00:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230603\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T00:09:10","slug":"jack-the-flipper-killer-dolphin-on-loose-off-uk-coast-after-slaying-a-baby-dolphin-and-then-a-shark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/230603\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Jack The Flipper&#8217; killer dolphin on loose off UK coast after slaying a baby dolphin and then a SHARK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A KILLER dolphin is on the loose after being caught on video slaying one of its own kind \u2014 and then a shark.<\/p>\n<p>The bottlenose dolphin, dubbed Jack the Flipper, targeted a smooth-hound shark last week having previously attacked a juvenile common dolphin three months ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dolphin tossing another dolphin out of the water.\" height=\"600\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Jam Press\/Sarah Michelle Wyer\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/young-jedi-knight-star-wars-1006827301.jpg\" data-caption=\"The killer bottlenose dolphin was caught slaying one if its own kind\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/young-jedi-knight-star-wars-1006827301.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>The killer bottlenose dolphin was caught slaying one if its own kindCredit: Jam Press\/Sarah Michelle Wyer<a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dolphin throwing a shark out of the water.\" height=\"497\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Jam Press\/Sarah Michelle Wyer\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/young-jedi-knight-star-wars-1006827297.jpg\" data-caption=\"'Jack The Flipper' also killed a smooth-hound shark last week\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/young-jedi-knight-star-wars-1006827297.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Jack The Flipper&#8217; also killed a smooth-hound shark last weekCredit: Jam Press\/Sarah Michelle Wyer<\/p>\n<p>He is part of a pod in Cardigan Bay, off the coast of Mid <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/wales\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Wales<\/a>, and had actually been named Anakin, after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/topic\/star-wars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Star Wars<\/a> character, by dolphin watcher Sarah Michelle Wyer.<\/p>\n<p>She told\u00a0The Sun: \u201cI\u2019ve not seen a dolphin throw a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/35644178\/shark-attack-boy-arm-hanging\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shark <\/a>out in the eight years I\u2019ve been watching them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of the skippers has seen them throw topes, which is another small member of the shark family, but not smooth-hounds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut when Anakin killed the young common <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/34955491\/abandoned-theme-park-stranded-whales-dolphins\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dolphin<\/a>, it was the first recorded instance of this behaviour happening in Cardigan Bay. It is unknown why this dolphin chose to do it \u2014 as it would have been of no threat. Bottlenose dolphins are highly intelligent creatures and are capable of many unusual behaviours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey are not \u2018friendly flipper\u2019. This particular dolphin seems to have a very unusual personality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the name, common dolphins aren\u2019t common around here. And we now think this could be because of the bottlenose dolphins.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Smooth-hounds can grow up to 4ft in length \u2014 while bottlenose dolphins can reach up to 12ft.<\/p>\n<p>Dolphin Spotting Boat Trips, who Sarah works with, added: \u201cWe were very surprised when one of our local dolphins, Anakin, brought what we originally thought was a large salmon past the boat and then threw the fish out the water.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo our surprise, it was not a salmon but a member of the shark family called a smooth-hound.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe aren\u2019t sure if there are many records of smooth-hounds being part of a bottlenose dolphin\u2019s diet.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the dark world of randy sex pest dolphins who terrorise swimmers &amp; try to ROMP with humans<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBottlenose dolphins are opportunistic feeders and have a varied diet of fish, squid and crustaceans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnakin\u2019s dolphinality is a very unusual one to say the least.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"#\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dolphin appearing to attack a shark.\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" data-credit=\"Jam Press\/Sarah Michelle Wyer\" data-img=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/young-jedi-knight-star-wars-1006827292.jpg\" data-caption=\"I\u2019ve not seen a dolphin throw a shark out in the eight years I\u2019ve been watching them, said dolphin watcher Sarah Michelle Wyer\"   loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/young-jedi-knight-star-wars-1006827292.jpg\" role=\"img\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve not seen a dolphin throw a shark out in the eight years I\u2019ve been watching them, said dolphin watcher Sarah Michelle WyerCredit: Jam Press\/Sarah Michelle Wyer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A KILLER dolphin is on the loose after being caught on video slaying one of its own kind&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230604,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3847],"tags":[70,820,934,118,16,15,1764,1717],"class_list":{"0":"post-230603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-section-newsuk-news","10":"tag-sharks","11":"tag-the-sun-newspaper","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-wales","15":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114780737707249582","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230603\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}