How Dolphins Spin, and Why
Great story over at Live Science on the reasons why and how dolphins spin.
Once a dolphin breaks the surface, everything changes.
As it enters the air, the dolphin sheds all of the resistant forces that slowed it down in the water. And that’s when things really get dizzy.
Airborne, the spinner dolphin can make up to seven revolutions in as little as a second.
Photo borrowed from Flickr user blather.
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