{"id":951275,"date":"2026-11-03T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T16:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/951275\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T16:42:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T16:42:10","slug":"for-40-years-people-thought-these-dolphins-carried-sponges-to-protect-their-snouts-hidden-cameras-show-they-use-them-to-trap-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/951275\/","title":{"rendered":"For 40 years, people thought these dolphins carried sponges to protect their snouts. Hidden cameras show they use them to trap fish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tFor 40 years, people thought these dolphins carried sponges to protect their snouts. Hidden cameras show they use them to trap fish &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>November 3, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            3 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1440\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/203286_web.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    Photo Credit : Stephanie King<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For 40 years, people thought these dolphins carried sponges to protect their snouts. Hidden cameras show they use&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":951276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[64,63,128,338],"class_list":["post-951275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951275","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=951275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/951276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}