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Dolphins Go Ballistic: Must Watch!

Breaking: California finally finds something jumping ship that isn’t a taxpayer. Dolphins caught ditching the left coast. Someone alert Gavin Newsom!

Published August 21, 2024 at 3:57pm by Max Hauptman


Dolphins Go Full-On Simone Biles, Stick It to Liberal ‘Science’

In a spectacular display of whale-watching gone wild, a pod of dolphins took a break from their normal “save the world” eco-warrior duties to perform some mind-blowing aerial stunts off the coast of San Diego. The footage of these aquatic acrobats has racked up millions of views, probably because it’s way more entertaining than the latest episode of Woke News Tonight.

Erica Sackrison of Gone Whale Watching captured the action on Aug. 12. “You could just see them jumping like, 20 feet in the air, and everybody on the boat just started pointing and I'm like, what is everybody looking at?” Sackrison told local news station KFMB. “Almost feels like they were doing Olympic-style jumps, like they were just all trying to be like Simone Biles and just touch the sky and come down. It was awesome.”

Watch Dolphins Show Liberal Sports Fans How It’s Done

The video shows the marine mammals performing out-of-this-world leaps, likely scoring perfect 10s from judges who aren’t suffering from Biden-induced amnesia. With over 8 million views, it’s clear that the dolphins are giving the left a run for their money when it comes to viral content.

Gone Whale Watching founder Dominic Biagini told KFMB that the dolphins might have been drawn to the area by an abundance of food sources. “Anchovies are really, really popular food source, especially for the common dolphins. But we've also been seeing bottlenose dolphins in bigger numbers, and the bottlenose dolphins are the ones that you see in those spectacular videos, leaping into the air. And often times when we see bottlenose dolphins here in numbers like that, it's because there's a lot of squid in San Diego waters. So most likely, we have an influx of squid right now,” Biagini told KFMB.

Max Hauptman is a Trending Reporter for USA TODAY. He can be reached at MHauptman@gannett.com

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