Jan 222013
Here’s a heck of a thing. A recent video of some divers at night off Hawaii observing manta rays, when a bottlenose dolphin swims up to them. it had a fishing hook in its left pectoral fin, and a bunch of fishing line wrapped around that fin and into its mouth reducing range of motion. It swam directly up to one of the divers who proceeded to remove the fishing line with a multi-tool. The dolphin tolerated the procedure, then swam away.
It’s always unwise to anthropomorphize non-human critters, but this sure does look like the dolphin came to humans for help. Luckily for the dolphin, it found the right humans.
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