{"id":105665,"date":"2025-08-30T01:55:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T01:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105665\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T01:55:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T01:55:07","slug":"pod-of-about-100-dolphins-dazzle-oc-boat-passengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/105665\/","title":{"rendered":"Pod of about 100 dolphins dazzle OC boat passengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Friday, August 29, 2025 10:13PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Playful dolphins dazzle boat passengers\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A pod of about 100 bottlenose dolphins dazzled passengers aboard a Newport Coastal Adventure&#8217;s whale-watching vessel earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (KABC) &#8212; A breathtaking encounter just off the Newport Beach coast was caught on camera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">A pod of about 100 bottlenose dolphins dazzled passengers aboard a Newport Coastal Adventure&#8217;s whale-watching vessel earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The dolphins began riding the boat&#8217;s wake, with some of them launching themselves as high as 10 feet into the air. Marine biologists say this is rare behavior for bottlenose dolphins, but it demonstrates their playful nature and strong social bond.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Friday, August 29, 2025 10:13PM A pod of about 100 bottlenose dolphins dazzled passengers aboard a Newport Coastal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[75944,64,63,128,338],"class_list":{"0":"post-105665","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-75944","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}