One summer day in 1955, on a beach near the village of Opononi, New Zealand, 13 –year – old Jill Baker waded into the water to join a friend, one of the strangest playmates the world has ever known. A torpedo like body streaked towards her and swam between her legs, spilling her into the surf. She put her arms around the huge creature, got on its back and took a ride. Later Jill tossed a beach ball to her playmate. Rising from the water, huge mouth spread in a grin, the creature batted it back with its nose. As the game progressed, people gathered on the beach staring in amazement. Jill Baker’s playmates were a porpoise.
The ancients, who called the porpoise a dolphin, knew him as friendly. “He is the only creature who loves man for his own sake”, wrote Plutarch. “Some land animals avoid man altogether, and the tame ones such as dogs and horses are tame because he feeds them. To the dolphin alone, nature has given what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage”. Pliny the Elder wrote of a wild porpoise that took a boy for a ride at Hippo, a Roman settlement in Africa, Roman coins of 74 B.C. show such a scene.
Everything about the porpoise could be written in superlatives. Not a fish but an air-breathing mammal, he swims incredibly fast, kills sharks, communicates with his own kind, herds fish. He may have the world’s best sonar equipment. One scientist believes that his brain is so similar to a human being’s that he might even be taught to talk.
“Jill Baker waded into the water to join a friend_____” Who was Jill Baker’s friend? 1
What has nature given to the porpoise alone? 1
What did Jill Baker do when a torpedo-like body swam between her legs? 1
How did the huge creature react when Jill tossed a beach ball to the creature? 2
Why did people gather on the beach? 2
Find out the words from the passage which mean- “colony”.
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1. Stangest playmate the world has ever seen was Jill Barker's freind.
2. To the dolphin alone, nature has given what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage”
3. She put her arms around the huge creature, got on its back and took a ride
4. Rising from the water, huge mouth spread in a grin, the creature batted it back with its nose.
5. Jill tossed a beach ball to her playmate. Rising from the water, huge mouth spread in a grin, the creature batted it back with its nose. As the game progressed, people gathered on the beach staring in amazement.
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