{"id":890888,"date":"2026-10-22T15:14:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890888\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T15:14:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T15:14:19","slug":"dolphin-throws-fish-at-man-in-australia-and-were-not-sure-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/890888\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphin throws fish at man in Australia \u2013 and we&#8217;re not sure why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you don\u2019t need to be in the ocean to have a close-up encounter with a marine animal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lowery1604\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Lowery<\/a>\u00a0learned this the hard way when he was in Mandurah, Western Australia, and heard that a large pod of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.discoverwildlife.com\/animal-facts\/marine-animals\/dolphin-shelling\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dolphins<\/a> was swimming nearby.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As he went over to take a look, one of the dolphins launched a fish at him from the water. It smashed into him with an audible thwack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat dolphin just threw a fish at me,\u201d he can be heard saying while someone cackles in the background at what they just saw. \u201cThanks for that,\u201d he writes jokingly in the video caption.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hilarious\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DZ_5BEUveUH\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0video has generated more than one million views and thousands of comments. Several people had the same response: the dolphin obviously did it on porpoise!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>See the dramatic moment the dolphin hurls a fish from the water. Credit: Jack Lowery <\/p>\n<p>More wildlife stories from around the world<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sometimes you don\u2019t need to be in the ocean to have a close-up encounter with a marine animal.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":890889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-890888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}