{"id":437,"date":"2015-02-18T23:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T23:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ANIMALPAGES.COM\/animals\/?p=437"},"modified":"2025-07-09T00:02:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T07:02:39","slug":"wild-dolphin-asks-diver-to-rescue-him-from-fishing-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wild-dolphin-asks-diver-to-rescue-him-from-fishing-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Dolphin Asks Diver to Rescue Him from Fishing Line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dolphins are one of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ANIMALPAGES.COM\/animals\/worlds-15-most-intelligent-animals\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"440\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">world\u2019s most intelligent creatures<\/a>, but they lack hands with opposable thumbs. Luckily, this wild dolphin knew where to find someone to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dive instructor Keller Laros was with a manta ray night dive tour off the Big Island of Hawai\u2019i when a bottlenose dolphin appeared out of the dark trailing a fishing line hooked into his fin. After circling the divers, the dolphin swam over to Keller and waited patiently for him to remove the line. There is no doubt the dolphin understood and appreciated Keller\u2019s help!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dolphin Rescue in Kona, Hawaii\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CCXx2bNk6UA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Enjoy the beautiful video from Martina Wing and&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mantarayshawaii.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MantaRaysHawaii<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-2571651847880215\"\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\n<!-- banner ad -->\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\n     style=\"display:block\"\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-2571651847880215\"\n     data-ad-slot=\"7178535257\"\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<script>\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\n<\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dolphins are one of the\u00a0world\u2019s most intelligent creatures, but they lack hands with opposable thumbs. Luckily, this wild dolphin knew where to find someone to help. Dive instructor Keller Laros&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,33,34,32],"tags":[146,54,102,55,64,39,18],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animal-heroes","category-animal-news","category-animal-tales","category-animal-videos","tag-animal-news","tag-animal-rescues","tag-dolphins","tag-faith-in-humanity-restored","tag-heartwarming","tag-marine-animals","tag-videos"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/dolphin-line-rescue.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalpages.com\/animals\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}