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『福井新聞』の記事；

イルカに体当たりされ60代男性が骨折の重傷　福井県の水晶浜海水浴場
7/16(日) 15:39配信

福井新聞ＯＮＬＩＮＥ
　7月16日午前4時10分ごろ、福井県美浜町竹波の水晶浜海水浴場で、遊泳していた岐阜県可児市の60代男性がイルカに体当たりされ、肋骨を折るなどの重傷を負った。
　同海水浴場では5月28日にも、遊泳していた愛知県名古屋市の20代男性がイルカに左腕をかまれ、軽いけがをしている。
　6月26日には、泳いでいた男性がイルカに右腕をかまれ、けがを負った。
https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/08de5c1b15baba4358dcb64345570ed4808cd30a

これを最初に知ったのはBBCの記事だった；

“Swimmers injured in dolphin attacks on Japan beach” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-66216199

海豚に襲われる事件というのは屡々報告されている。抑々海豚にとって、人間と一緒に泳ぐということは、そのルーティンを掻き乱れるという意味でストレスフルなことであるようだ；

While dolphins are not usually aggressive to humans, hostility towards swimmers is not unheard of.
Scientists have suggested that wild bottlenose dolphins find swimming alongside humans "incredibly stressful," finding evidence that it disrupts their behavioural routines*1.
In the Republic of Ireland, two women were injured in the space of ten days in 2013 by the same dolphin, including one who suffered from a broken rib*2.
A year later five swimmers had to be rescued off the Irish coast when a dolphin encircled them aggressively*3.
As well as hostility towards humans - dolphins are known at times to behave extremely violently towards their fellow sea creatures.
In Cornwall, south-west England, a bottlenose dolphin was seen flipping a porpoise into the air as part of an aggressive attack*4.

昨年８月の事件；

「福井市内の海水浴場にまたイルカ、2人が腕など噛まれ負傷　8月11日、警察が注意呼びかけ」https://www.fukuishimbun.co.jp/articles/-/1608083
Leo Sands*5 “Japan dolphin: Two more swimmers bitten” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-62508073

*1:See Elizabeth Diffin "Is it wrong to swim with dolphins?" http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8572855.stm

*2:See “Warning as Dusty the dolphin injures swimmers off Irish coast” https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23554395

*3:See “Dolphin 'attacks' five swimmers in Galway Bay” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29460544

*4:See “Dolphin pictured killing porpoise by flipping it into air” https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-37616961