Four separate incidents on a beach in Fukui prefecture on July 16 echo a string of attacks in the same region last year that may have been perpetrated by a single Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin.
Dolphins attacked four people swimming in the sea off the coast of Japan on Sunday , leaving one man in his 60s with several broken ribs.
Both this year and last, dolphins came right up to the edge of the water. The man whose ribs splintered had been swimming 16 feet from the shore at Suishohama Beach when a dolphin rammed and bit him, local police told the Asahi Shimbun news site in Japan. Another man sustained bites on his left arm the same morning, and the BBC reported that two more beachgoers were attacked later that day, although there are few details about these incidents.
The recent incidents bring the number of reported dolphin attacks in Fukui to six this year, police said, but it remains unclear if they were all perpetrated by the same animal. Authorities have warned swimmers against approaching or touching the mammals. People should remember that dolphins are wild and extremely powerful animals, Giovanni Bearzi, a zoologist and president of the non-profit organization Dolphin Biology Conservation in Italy, told Live Science in an email.
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