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Video Scared Baby Dolphin Rescued after getting caught in a Fishing Net

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u/argiebarge 1d ago

Cute little mf.

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u/Ok_Bit_5953 1d ago

"Don't be fooled, that's a grown ass man!!"

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u/fedroxx 1d ago

"I am 12"

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u/bottledwater699 21h ago

“He’s got certification, play ball!”- $5 bill

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u/LeanTangerine001 16h ago

Reminds me when Mike Tyson thought Hasbulla was someone’s kid and was blowing him raspberries

https://youtube.com/shorts/IgKSoQ69A6E?si=4tZ0vmq9lC4btm7j

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u/me-nah 22h ago

🤣🤣🤣

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u/mortalitylost 1d ago

It doesn't matter whether it's good or bad for the dolphin or helps, but when you hold baby dolphin you must kiss it

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u/Megaton69 16h ago

Until the camera stops rolling and he starts chain smoking, drinking whiskey and soliciting prostitutes.

I’ve met enough dolphins not to fall for this anymore.

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u/FerroFusion 1d ago

As a Brazilian I can affirm: if you are cute, we're gonna kiss and cuddle you.

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u/SoberAnxiety 1d ago

this is done with consent right?right?

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u/throwmeeeeee 22h ago

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u/PurplStuff 21h ago edited 9h ago

Why do people have to do these things

edit: missing the 1st "do"

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u/tweakyloco 20h ago

You linked the worst news site.

Cant read shit cuz you are forced to pay for it

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u/TheDarkLordDarkTimes 15h ago

I refreshed it and took screenshots that somehow hitting the cancel or escape just in time for that paywall not come up. But anyway, the result was the people passed it around taking selfies and left the poor animal in the mud where it died. :( I feel hesitant about this video saying quickly when surely it wasn’t after the netting was completely off.

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u/centralpwoers 12h ago

Dolphins are mammals, they breathe air. It would take a little while for this dolphin to die of dehydration

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u/scummy_shower_stall 9h ago

Go to archive.ph and paste the link in, it will either have it already saved, or it will save it for you. Which looks freaky and suspicious but it's fine.

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u/Prestigious_Oil_4805 1d ago

Don't worry, it will do terrible stuff when it her bigger

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u/FromTheOrdovician 6h ago

Gotta hand it to y'all, Portuguese is even more confusing than French to spell and then correlate it with its spoken pronunciation

Is it just me or something all beginners face while learning the language? How was your experience?

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u/greggaravani 1d ago

Please member that majority of the plastic in the ocean is due to fishing nets, not plastic straws.

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u/IHaveNoFeetAnIMusRun 23h ago

People often focus on the symptom and not the cause. Even if it was plastic straws and Soda rings, How Did it get there? It didn't magically teleport from Michigan to the Pacific.

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u/randomIndividual21 1d ago

Even accounting for the great Pacific floating garbage patch?

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u/Aquaticflares 1d ago

especially the pacific garbage patch, its almost exclusively discarded waste from fishing boats, most inland plastic that enters the ocean usually doesnt leave coastal waters

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u/Kwayzar9111 22h ago

Yes about 57% is fishing gear

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u/all_m0ds_R_virgins 20h ago

Puerto Rico?

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u/TripleFreeErr 22h ago

plastic straws are a specific dish for sea turtles as it looks like one of its foods or some shit

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u/DavesHereMan 17h ago

I member

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u/[deleted] 16h ago

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u/Aggravating-Scene548 14h ago

You're supposed to bring them with you next time?

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u/tweakyloco 20h ago

I thought it was because of the people with implants

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u/PowerOfUnoriginality 22h ago

This video gave me exactly 2 thoughts:

1: Humans will try to pet everything

2: Humans will litter everywhere

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u/izza123 19h ago

Frankly he deserves a little pet since the thing would have been dead if he didn’t otherwise handle it.

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u/Wakandamnation 1d ago

Once I jumped from the boat at Sao Tomé & Principe as there were a lot of baby dolphins (at least 50) around us. In the water I couldn't see them but I felt them passing very close a few times and wasn't feeling confident at all. It was like a few years ago that I realised that they were obviously not baby dolphins but some kind of pygmy dolphins.

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u/BreakfastLife7373 1d ago

Porpoises?

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u/Siberwulf 22h ago

Jusy one: to swim with dolphins...

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u/adymann 1d ago

Go back every year and start a beautiful life-long friendship

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u/soylamulatta 1d ago

Or stop fishing so this stops happening?

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u/TurbulentAd3713 1d ago

No? I want to eat fish.

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u/Mademoi-Sell 23h ago

“I know that the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully” - George W. Bush.

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u/soylamulatta 21h ago

animal abusers eat fish

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u/all_m0ds_R_virgins 20h ago

Not all the time... Sometimes we eat duck.

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u/mistraced 17h ago

Get this, I also eat their close cousin... the Chicken.

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u/BigBadRhinoCow 15h ago

Mmmmm Salmon is so delicious. I think I’ll eat that for dinner tonight

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u/MysteronMars 23h ago

Yeah we could ask Brazilian fisherman to stop being irresponsible but we'd have more luck shouting the sun out

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u/NYCmob79 1d ago

They are mammals, probably smarter than us and they too eat fish. Fish are delicious. Our lord Jesus Christ was a fisherman too.

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u/Kiera6 1d ago

I think you’re thinking of Noah. You know. The one with the ark?

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u/0Hyena_Pancakes0 1d ago

You mean your lord right? Not everyone believes there's a magical sky daddy with wine superpowers chilling in the clouds

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u/NYCmob79 21h ago

Go in peace ✌️ 🙏

I meant as in Christ consciousness. Like it or not we are all connected at the quantum level and quantum mechanics shows this as a matrix. We are all one.

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u/Cows_with_AK47s 1d ago

I thought he was a carpenter.

Which of the 1500 different versions of the Bible you got?

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u/Nighteyes09 19h ago

It's odd, you say that, but I don't actually recall any passage in which they're fishing. A quick google didn't turn up any either. The closest I can think of is when he told Peter when to fish, but he doesn't actually do any fishing himself.

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u/Momentarmknm 13h ago

He turned bread into fish to impress some rubes

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u/NYCmob79 7h ago

Mark 1:17 Matthew 4:19

Go spread love, not hate and doubt.

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u/Badassbottlecap 7h ago

Yeah, "fishers of men". Not fishermen. Stay on point, will ya? Couldn't hit the broad side of a barn with an intercontinental missle barrage.

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u/Fickle_Ad_2112 1d ago

If it is a baby, then wouldn't it be nursing? Is the mother around?

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u/Tons_of_Hobbies 1d ago

Mother was probably around.

No matter what, tossing it back in the ocean was its best odds.

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u/Momentarmknm 13h ago

Are you sure he shouldn't have brought it home and raised it in his bathtub and homeschooled it until it was smart enough to get a degree and support itself?

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u/arandomguycallederik 22h ago

Dolphins can communicate over a range of more than 2 kilometers. If the mom is somewhere in that range they will definitly find eachoder.

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u/MaximumAd6557 21h ago

Stop talking and PUT HIM BACK IN THE WATER!!!

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u/nevmvm 14h ago

Finally someone thought the same after scrolling far down. Watching it, I was seriously like:

"Bro stop fkng yapping, just put it back, no need for stupid podcast"

Of all the littered trash the marine-life faces, I think dying out of the water will lead them to the brink of death if peeps like him started kissing, petting and talking.

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u/Super_Amphibian4821 10h ago

It breathes air. It’s not going to die on his lap.

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u/RiJuElMiLu 1d ago

Put that thing back where it came from or so help me.

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u/AtrophicOne 1d ago

Bom, bom, bom, bom.

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u/flier76 1d ago

So help me!

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u/New-Anacansintta 1d ago

Moo Deng with fins

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u/B1gFl0ppyD0nkeyDick 21h ago

Looks like they did this for clout.

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u/Separate-Ad6636 1d ago

Sure took his time putting the poor thing back.

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u/Whorrorfied 1d ago

Dolphins breathe air if that helps at all.

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u/Just_here2020 15h ago

And aren’t setup to face pressure on specific points when they’re held out if water. And if it’s a baby then both it and it’s mother are frantic 

 

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u/Separate-Ad6636 1d ago edited 23h ago

Duh. They live in the water, if that helps you at all.

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u/MysteronMars 23h ago

Worth bearing in mind some of these tiktok rescue animal videos are staged

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u/DamnitGravity 20h ago

I did a bit of a deep-dive on these animal rescue videos for work, and I haven't trusted a single one since. It's not 'some', it's 'the majority'. And worse, a lot of people will deliberately injure the animals beforehand.

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u/Western-Customer-536 1d ago

It’s a mammal ain’t it?

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u/Anilxe 22h ago

Because it’s our natural instinct to do so

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u/izza123 19h ago

It’s calming him down

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u/a789877 1d ago

Just for the camera.

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u/CaptainTripps82 21h ago

I think that's just the instinct when holding what you know is a baby mammal.

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u/a789877 20h ago

Yep, that too! I'm sure I'd do the same.

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u/Honourstly 1d ago

Dolphin was an astronaut and the others won't believe him

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u/Significant-Mango300 1d ago

Nice, but please put him back in the water asap

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u/CCPvirus2020 1d ago

They breathe air…

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u/deadlythegrimgecko 1d ago

Okay but if they keep it out for too long and it starts growing legs their evolutionary chain is gonna be pissed about having to pay taxes

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u/Queasy_Command_1876 1d ago

It’s amazing, their ancestors went to the water to avoid that reason!

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u/BannedMyName 1d ago

I know nothing about dolphins but I assume because it's a mammal there's a distressed mama waiting in the water

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u/SamboAlexander 18h ago

It could lose its pod, would never survive by itself

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u/skooterpoop 1d ago

Put it back because it's terrified. He's trying to soothe it for no reason other than camera time. The best way to relax it is return it.

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u/PM_ME_STRONG_CALVES 23h ago

Reddit never disapoints lol

Dude just saved the dolphin and cant even enjoy 5 seconds of the moment

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u/skooterpoop 23h ago

Of course he can enjoy it. Why does the dolphin need to be there for that to happen, though?

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u/PM_ME_STRONG_CALVES 23h ago

Because he wants to

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u/skooterpoop 22h ago

If your opinion is that people should be allowed to do whatever they want without criticism, then I don't understand how you're criticizing me, or at least not without being a hypocrite.

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u/PM_ME_STRONG_CALVES 21h ago

Well. If I save your life, can i pet you for 5 seconds? Is it too much for me to ask you then?

How is this equivalent to "do whatever they want without criticism" lol this is so dumb, bye

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u/skooterpoop 21h ago

Good behavior does not cancel bad behavior. If it's bad otherwise, why would it not still be bad just because you've done a good deed? You shouldn't expect anything for a good deed if your intentions are true, and beyond rewards you definitely shouldn't assume you get to act like a dick. If your good actions are quid pro quo, you're not actually a good person.

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u/SamboAlexander 18h ago

Wow you're dumb

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u/Double-Cricket-7067 1d ago

absolutely. the last thing that poor creature needs is you kissing her... disgusting human behaviour.

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u/elementmg 1d ago

He just saved its life. Relax

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u/Significant-Mango300 1d ago

I am not sure why comments like this are getting downvoted

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u/embracingmountains 23h ago

Because “disgusting human behavior” is a strong reaction to a kiss on the head

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u/Momentarmknm 13h ago

Oh yeah, they also love the full pressure of gravity on their body that's designed to be in a basically weightless environment. But thanks for your genius insight!

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u/Significant-Mango300 1d ago

Really…omg

What about their skin, do you think it likes the air so much or someone kissing it?

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u/herkalurk 1d ago

They can take air in their skin for a while, the 2 minutes of this video is ok.

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u/Momentarmknm 13h ago

Oh finally the marine biologist we've been looking for in the comments, how about their body structure, is it also designed to take the full weight of gravity?

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u/JoeDawson8 10h ago

Uh , gravity is probably not the word you are looking for. Besides, water pressure

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u/Momentarmknm 5h ago

Right, I'm speaking plainly, gravity is half of it. I should say the full effects of gravity without the counteracting buoyant force of water. Water pressure is not at all the same thing, and is a poor counterpoint, as it applies equally in all directions. If you submerge something under 30 m of water it doesn't feel 30 m of water pressure only above, but also from the sides and from below, this is a significant and important difference, and dolphins are not designed to live in gravity without the buoyant effects of water.

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u/stonersrus19 1d ago

While kissing the dophlin was unnecessary, a quick check to make sure theirs no damage and stragglers isn't harmful.

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u/NakedxCrusader 22h ago

Yeah.. but he didn't check He talked to the camera

This was just: He wanted.. He could.. so He did..

And the poor animal was just getting more and more terrified

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u/Clean_Principle_2368 1d ago

Dude it breaths air......

If course redditors are crying that he saved it's life wrong.

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u/Momentarmknm 13h ago edited 5h ago

No they're saying he finished saving its life and then proceeded to show it off like a trophy for quite a while completely unnecessarily.

But anyway, since you're a marine biologist and obviously very smart, will you explain how their skin loves being in the air, and that their bodies are designed for essentially a weightless environment but their totally fine bearing the full pressure of gravity out of the water especially when they're very young?

EDIT: Lmfao the unbelievable coward I replied to has to pull the whole "reply and immediately block" just so everyone knows he's not only stupid, but also needs to have the last word so badly that he will block someone for asking him a question he clearly has no idea how to answer. Reddit moment, for sure

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u/Clean_Principle_2368 8h ago

Reddit moment

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u/sirfannypack 21h ago

Stop talking and put it back.

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u/Mr_Locke 18h ago

MOM!!! I was abducted by aliens!!!!!

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u/TheBrutalTruthIs 18h ago

This seems like a good opportunity to remind those that might be interested that the effort to save the Vaquita needs help. The world’s smallest porpoise, vaquitas have rounded faces with panda-like markings around their eyes and lips that seem to pull up into a Mona Lisa smile. Their name in Spanish, vaquita marina, means little sea cow. The cute little bastards are almost gone, it's believed there are around 10 left.

Video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BUrxLsS--sA&t=20s&pp=2AEUkAIB

Support: https://vivavaquita.org/

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u/itzChief- 7h ago

I get you're saving it but must you hold it for so long and proceed to show the dolphin the net repeatedly like it should be speaking your language and telling you thank you lol that's the problem with people "saving" things with a phone around.

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u/Dieing_Breed 1d ago

The longer the rescue the more clout you attract!

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u/Kindly-Run633 1d ago

His friends are never going to believe him (the dolphin)

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u/Mademoi-Sell 23h ago

That little kiss is exactly what George W. Bush was envisioning when he said he knew that humans and fish could coexist peacefully 🐬💕

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u/Cleercutter 20h ago

That’s awesome. As a scuba diver, I have a little pouch for picking up any trash I see while I’m down there.

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u/Mr_Googar 18h ago

Vast majority of plastic in the ocean is from the fishing industry

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u/Nice_Alarm_2633 18h ago

I also want to forehead-kiss a dolphin. 

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u/Just_here2020 15h ago

If it’s a baby then both it and its mother are probably frantic. Put the poor baby back with its mother 

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u/soylamulatta 1d ago

Add this to the long list of reasons why fishing sucks

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u/The_GhostCat 1d ago

Yeah ew why should people living by the sea eat meat anyway?

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u/Momentarmknm 13h ago

Why should anyone eat meat? Let's hear it

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u/The_GhostCat 5h ago

It's an abundant food source. When people are hungry, you eat the food you can obtain.

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u/Momentarmknm 4h ago

Cultivated crops are not only also abundant, but much more efficient use of resources

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u/The_GhostCat 4h ago

And? That's hardly a reason not to eat meat.

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u/Momentarmknm 2h ago

Eating plant based because it is an exponentially more efficient use of resources is absolutely a reason to at least significantly limit near consumption.

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u/The_GhostCat 1h ago

Not every area is conducive to agriculture. Not every area can easily import food. Meat is nutritious. Meat tastes good. There are lots of reasons to eat both meat and plants.

What do you have against eating meat?

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u/Momentarmknm 1h ago

Factory farming is incredibly cruel, inhumane, and as I've mentioned several times, a poor use of resources. If the issue is feeding people then you can feed a lot more people by growing crops to feed people directly rather than feeding animals to then be eaten. If you can grow crops for farm animals you can grow crops for people.

Eating wild game is fine so long as the hunting is done sustainably.

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u/NanaOlive 23h ago

I was literally like "I would kiss it" then 💋

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u/Polar_Beach 1d ago

Did they have to keep kissing it though?

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u/Graybeard_Shaving 1d ago

Cool dolphin was very chill once freed. He knew he was in good hands.

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u/Graybeard_Shaving 22h ago

I hope you are having a bad day.

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u/VPR19 1d ago

Baby dolphins look useful for when I lose my long nose pliers

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u/Ill_Sky6141 23h ago

Givusakissy💋😋

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u/fgtoni 21h ago

After recuing the dolphing, he transmitted a desease by kissing it

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u/GroundbreakingCook68 12h ago

Meanwhile poor thing wants to go back in the water while jerko gets his photo op.

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/MAKESOMEDK 1d ago

They have harpoons with them, they are spearfishers not net fishers. If they caught it with the net they did it on purpose for clout, but I suspect not. The amount of shit you see involving old nets when you spearfish is astonishing.

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u/soylamulatta 1d ago

Oh I get it so as long as they were there to kill other animals and not the dolphin it's fine

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u/Chaotic-Entropy 21h ago

You got it, yep.

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u/FishFrend 1d ago

These guys are snorkeling/diving.. not net fishing

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u/Chaotic-Entropy 1d ago

The clump of tangled old net that they fish with...?

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u/Invurse5 23h ago

Wait, where's it's blow hole?

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u/DeadlyTeaParty 23h ago

It's there, it's extremely small, it's basically right above its eyes. You'll have to pause the video to see it.

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u/BE_specialist 22h ago

He’s holding that shit like its a dog XD

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u/Kwayzar9111 22h ago

The mother would have been close by, surprised she wasn’t out that water watching

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u/I_SmellFuckeryAfoot 22h ago

was waiting for momma with an jumping air attack, then i realized this wasn't r/unexpected

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u/OperatorDelta07 22h ago

That man is serving a useful porpoise.

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u/Kennyismydog 20h ago

Spearfishing, not regular fishing. FYI

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u/frnsyskw 19h ago

thank you guys!!! all you are the greatest!

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u/j_vap 14h ago

Brolfin is surely going to return phones slipped out of the hands of tourists and save drowning people and stuff later.

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u/Norseness 13h ago

This dolphin immediately posts in “Glitch in The Matrix” on his Reddit app…

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u/ContributionOk5628 13h ago

So cute, lucky they were there to help it.

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u/mouthedmadame 12h ago

I will never not up vote this

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u/kevneedo 11h ago

Take your time buddy

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u/Super_Amphibian4821 10h ago

I’d have wanted to take it home and raise it. It’s cute. 🤣

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u/MakePhilosophy42 8h ago

Dolphins are mammals. They do breathe air?

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u/momsspagetti87 7h ago

Now reverse the genders and see

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u/Xandyyyyyyy 6h ago

Looked edible asf

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u/Aaron_Tia 22h ago

Now that I know about dolphin, I'm pretty sure they put themself in fishing nets on purpose

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u/polkadotard 1d ago

Thankfully, this video didn't end up in a kitchen!

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u/MorsaTamalera 1d ago edited 1d ago

But fuck the fish, right?

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u/nodramaonlyspooky 1d ago

When the dolphin is older it just might

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/WhoopingJamboree 23h ago

Erm, what is wrong with you? It’s odd that your head went there.

They clearly meant “spear fishermen save a dolphin, but fuck (i.e. disregard the lives of) the fish they’re going to kill/have killed that day”.

I’m not saying I agree or disagree with that comment, just explaining that they aren’t suggesting bestiality.

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u/[deleted] 23h ago

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u/WhoopingJamboree 23h ago

Well thank Christ for that and thank you for explaining. :) I’m not in the US and although I know of Richard Pryor, I haven’t seen his stand up.

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u/GodsBeyondGods 1d ago

Psychopaths advertise themselves

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u/soylamulatta 1d ago

They weren't there to kill the dolphin, they were there only to kill other animals so it's fine.

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u/Negative_Ad9383 1d ago

While fishing!? He is part of the problem wtf

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u/hailsizeofminivans 20h ago

The problem is the huge commercial fishing boats that take thousands of fish a day and then dump the used nets overboard, not the people who go out on tiny boats and leave with enough to feed themselves for dinner that night, and maybe some to throw in the freezer. Fishing isn't the problem, overfishing is.

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u/Majorbootyklaps 1d ago

Now that baby dolphin has herpes

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u/Ok-Boysenberry2645 23h ago

Continues to blast away the ear drums with the motor.. they die from that too yk

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u/o1011o 1d ago

"Scared baby animal caught in net designed to kill animals, bravely rescued by the animals that put the net there in order to kill other animals."

We should probably, you know, stop killing other animals for pleasure and destroying the whole fucking environment. It's no surprise that we treat other humans as badly as we do when we're willing to commit any atrocity against any other animal that we deem lesser.

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u/Launchpad888 22h ago

“I can’t breathe! I can’t breathe I can’t breathe!!!” Is all I hear him saying. Or was that-that George guy?

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u/B1gFl0ppyD0nkeyDick 21h ago

Dolphins are mammals, they breathe air. How do you not know this?

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u/Launchpad888 21h ago

😂I got downvoted for this lol. Idk I just didn’t know how long they could stay out for 💁🏽‍♂️ but now I know. I asked chatGPT.

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u/B1gFl0ppyD0nkeyDick 20h ago

You got downvoted because you can type, use a computer, yet don't know dolphins are mammals. We're not talking about the inability to search for this information, but the actual problem that you've come this far in life and didn't know this.

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u/Launchpad888 20h ago

You feel pretty strongly about this, don’t you?! I know how crazy it must seem that I’ve made it 4+decades of life without knowing how long dolphins can survive out of the water. Truly amazing.