Sometimes you don’t need to be in the ocean to have a close-up encounter with a marine animal.
Jack Lowery learned this the hard way when he was in Mandurah, Western Australia, and heard that a large pod of dolphins was swimming nearby.
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.
“That dolphin just threw a fish at me,” he can be heard saying while someone cackles in the background at what they just saw. “Thanks for that,” he writes jokingly in the video caption.
The hilarious Instagram video has generated more than one million views and thousands of comments. Several people had the same response: the dolphin obviously did it on porpoise!
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