{"id":222212,"date":"2025-09-20T04:30:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/worlds-smallest-marine-dolphins-can-perform-underwater-barrel-rolls"},"modified":"2025-09-20T04:30:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T09:30:08","slug":"worlds-smallest-marine-dolphins-can-perform-underwater-barrel-rolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/worlds-smallest-marine-dolphins-can-perform-underwater-barrel-rolls","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s smallest marine dolphins can perform underwater barrel rolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/worlds-smallest-marine-dolphins-can-perform-underwater-barrel-rolls2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists observing from boats knew little of the underwater behavior of the world\u2019s smallest marine dolphin, the Hector\u2019s dolphin.<\/p>\n<p>Now, a paper has revealed a hidden world\u2014including an array of acrobatics. The research is <a href=\"https:\/\/conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/conl.13144\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Conservation Letters.<\/p>\n<p>Barrel rolls, dives up to 120m deep, and upside-down feeding near the sea floor were behaviors discovered through tracking devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists observing from boats knew little of the underwater behavior of the world\u2019s smallest marine dolphin, the Hector\u2019s dolphin. Now, a paper has revealed a hidden world\u2014including an array of acrobatics. The research is published in the journal Conservation Letters. Barrel rolls, dives up to 120m deep, and upside-down feeding near the sea floor were [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}