“… perhaps the worst example of inter-specific aggression any of us had ever seen. This young female had literally had the life beaten out of her.”

— members of the Cetacean Research and Rescue Unit, commenting on the recent discovery that packs of dolphins are attacking, pursuing, and bludgeoning to death not only porpoises but their own young, leaving them with “broken ribs, imploding lungs, damaged livers and massive internal bleeding” and me with nightmares