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Simon Collins

Simon Collins

26 May 2018

9:00 AM

26 May 2018

9:00 AM

Has Flipper finally flipped? After centuries of challenging dogs for the Mans’ Best Friend guernsey, an incident in New Zealand suggests that relations between humans and dolphins may be entering a worrying new phase. I came to this conclusion after reading a piece in last weekend’s Oz about a diver who spent ten minutes of last week fending off a two-metre bronze whaler in Auckland Harbour.

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