Recently Spotted 103-Year-Old Orca Is Bad News For SeaWorld -- Here's Why

[Joe Chi Minh]

117. You know when you sense someone is looking at you,

and it's confirmed in spades when you look around? I had a similar sort of experience, at a sort of aquatic zoo in West Australia, when I suddenly met the steady gaze of a dolphin looking right at me from its pen (with a few others), at the edge of the sea, where it was located.

I'm not sure, it might have been called, Water World or something like that. It was quite straightforward though; I simply looked down and found myself meeting its steady gaze, a stare, really, although full of entreaty, as if begging for help. I was pretty sad about it. You know, animals frequently seek the help of humans, sometimes even wild animals.

By the way the phenomenon has been studied and confirmed - that we do have that sense. Security guards, night watchmen, found that just looking at thieves who'd broken in, via a hidden CCTV camera seemed to clearly spook and deter them. As if our eyes send out signals as well as receiving information.